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The Great Decipherment

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A symposium by three scholars in review of Documents in Mycenaean Greek by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
The decipherment by the late Michael Ventris of the Linear B script on the tablets from Knossos, Pylos, and Mycenae was not only a notable decoding: such translation of the documents as is possible has illuminated important and hitherto obscure aspects of the history, social organisation, and literature of the early Aegean world. These are respectively discussed by Sinclair Hood; Moses I. Finley; and Denys Page.

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Discussion By:
Sinclair Hood, Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens
Discussion By:
Moses I. Finley, Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge
Discussion By:
Denys Page, Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge

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