A Companion to Linear B, Volume 1: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World

by J.T. Killen, Maurice Pope, Jan Driessen, et al.

Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek; it is a syllabic script which belongs to the second half of the second millennium BC and precedes the earliest alphabetic texts by at least four hundred years. The tablets written in this script offer crucial information about the economy, administration, religion, institutions, etc. of the Mycenaean period. But who wrote these texts? What types of texts were they? How can we read them, understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042918489
• ISBN13: 9789042918481
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"