The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick5/14/2023 ![]() ![]() He developed new methods for investigating individuals named in the administrative Linear B texts and argued from this evidence that Mycenaean society was far less hierarchical and much more dynamic than it had been considered in the past. In this talk, I explore the weaknesses of these approaches and attempt to come to grips with issues of data scarcity in the study of the Mycenaean world.ĭimitri Nakassis is an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece (ca. Because of the limited number of texts preserved, scholars tended to treat all documents as if they came from a single corpus, even when they were separated by time, space, and archaeological context, and made use of socioeconomic typologies to fill in the large gaps in the evidence. Even John Chadwick wrote that "for the most part the tablets are drab and lifeless documents." The information in them, however, was usefully extracted by linguists and lexicographers on the one hand and by economic historians and archaeologists on the other. ![]() ![]() The decipherment of Linear B in 1952 was both a triumph and a disappointment. ![]()
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