2002, ISBN: 0500510776

[EAN: 9780500510773], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd.], Jacket, 168 p: ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausg… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780500510773], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd.], Jacket, 168 p: ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Nur leichte Abnutzung, sehr gutes Exemplar / Only light wear, very good copy. - More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories of the modern era: the search for the meaning of Linear B, the mysterious script found on clay tablets amid the ruined palace. Evans died without achieving his objective and it was left to the enigmatic Michael Ventris to crack the code in 1952. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but also that of the young man who deciphered it. Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and contradictory man. Stage by stage, we see how he finally achieved the breakthrough that revealed Linear B as the earliest comprehensible European writing system, more than half a millennium older than the Greek of Homer. The man who solved what has been dubbed "the Everest of Greek archaeology" was a complex and private figure, an amateur in classical scholarship who trained as an architect. His tragic death in a car crash at the age of thirty-four only heightens the fascination of how his brilliant intuitions succeeded in resolving an ancient mystery where all the experts had failed. ISBN 9780500510773 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495 Leinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket., Books<

2002, ISBN: 9780500510773

Thames & Hudson:, 2002. 168 pages, illustrated with b&w photos and line drawings. "Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest at… Mehr…

Thames & Hudson:, 2002. 168 pages, illustrated with b&w photos and line drawings. "Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examples dating to around 1400 BC. It is adapted from the earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script potentially used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Kydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing. Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris based on the research of American classicist Alice Kober. It is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have been deciphered, with Linear A, Cypro-Minoan, and Cretan hieroglyphic remaining unreadable.Linear B consists of around 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs. These ideograms or "signifying" signs symbolize objects or commodities. They have no phonetic value and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence." FINE HARDCOVER. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket Present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Thames & Hudson:, 2002, 5<