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McClanahan Lecture: Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code

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McClanahan Lecture: Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/15/2021 - 00:00

McClanahan Lecture Series

Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code:
Linear B and its Decipherment
Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, ��«��Ƶ

Thursday, April 15th, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. | Virtual Webinar

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The decipherment of Linear B in 1952 by Michael Ventris is one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, for Ventris cracked this Late Bronze Age code without the Aegean equivalent of the Rosetta Stone. The demonstration that Linear B was used to write Greek ca. 1400-1200 BCE, half a millennium before Homer, inaugurated a new chapter in the history of the Greek language and revolutionized the study of Late Bronze Age Greece. This lecture will review how the decipherment happened and what insights Linear B continues to provide to scholars of early Greece, almost 70 years after Ventris’ magnificent discovery.

This lecture is free and will be hosted on Zoom.
This lecture is sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan. CU Classics is grateful for her generous support.

View the PDF poster here

Dr. Nakassis will review how the decipherment of Linear B happened and what insights it continues to provide to scholars of early Greece, almost 70 years after Michael Ventris’ magnificent discovery.

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Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/30/2019 - 00:00

AIA Lecture Series

Digitizing Prehistory: Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century

Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, ��«��Ƶ

Wednesday, October 30th I 7 p.m. I Paleontology Hall

Free and open to the public

Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309

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McClanahan Lecture: Forgotten Cities

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McClanahan Lecture: Forgotten Cities Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/22/2017 - 00:00

Forgotten cities hidden in plain sight: archaeology and ancient landscapes in Greece

presented by Professor Dimitri Nakassis

Archaeology is usually associated with excavation, a process that brings the past into the present by peeling away layers, revealing ancient surfaces and structures along with their associated artifacts. In places like Rome and Athens, there is a city beneath the city: ancient monuments of stone underneath the modern concrete jungle. But there is also an archaeology hidden in plain sight, a way of exploring the past while walking across the terrain of the present day. This archaeology reveals entire forgotten cities, towns, and villages, and inquires into the countryside that surrounded them. This lecture will illustrate how this kind of archaeology helps us to understand the Greek world and one part of it in particular: the western Argolid. For the past three years, CU faculty and students explored this region as members of the Western Argolid Regional Project. This program of archaeological research has made many new discoveries and revealed a complex history of occupation over the past five millennia.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 7:00 PM in HUMN 1B50

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the Department of Classics

1610 Pleasant St. Eaton Humanities www.colorado.edu/classics 303-492-6257

Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building.

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Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee

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Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/19/2016 - 10:41

Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee

Dimitri Nakassis, Associate Professor of Classics, has been elected to the Information Technology Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2016-2021 term. Congratulations Dimitri!

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Dimitri Nakassis selected as MacArthur Fellow!

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Dimitri Nakassis selected as MacArthur Fellow! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/19/2015 - 14:32

It is with great excitement that we announce that Classics' Visiting Scholar, Dimitri Nakassis, has been selected as a MacArthur Fellow!

Widely known as the "Genius" grants, the MacArthur fellowships are awarded to only a very select few people chosen for their extraordinary creativity and achievements, talent and dedication, and "a marked capacity for self-direction."

For the official description of Nakassis' work and the overwhelming reasons for his selection, see: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/940/

And for a brief description of his work while with us last year as a Visiting Associate Professor, in the 2015 Newsletter

Congratulations Dimitri!

Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. Texas 2006) studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece. His book, Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos (Brill 2013), 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. He has published articles and book chapters on Homer and Hesiod, Greek religion and history, archaeological survey, Linear A, and the economy, society and prosopography of the Mycenaean world. He is currently writing a second book on political authority in Mycenaean Greece. He is co-director (with Sarah James and Scott Gallimore) of the Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), a diachronic archaeological survey in southern Greece, and co-director (with Kevin Pluta) of the "Digital Nestor" project, which involves the digital documentation of all the administrative documents from the "Palace of Nestor" at Pylos. In 2015 he was named a MacArthur fellow.

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McClanahan Lecture: Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code

McClanahan Lecture Series

Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code: Linear B and its Decipherment Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, ��«����Ƶ

Thursday, April 15th, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. | Virtual Webinar

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Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century

AIA Lecture Series

Digitizing Prehistory: Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century

Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, ��«����Ƶ

Wednesday, October 30th I 7 p.m. I Paleontology Hall

Free and open to the public

Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, ��«����Ƶ, CO 80309

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McClanahan Lecture: Forgotten Cities

presented by Professor Dimitri Nakassis

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 7:00 PM in HUMN 1B50

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Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee

Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee

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Dimitri Nakassis selected as MacArthur Fellow!

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Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code:
Linear B and its Decipherment
Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, ��«��Ƶ

Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, ��«��Ƶ

Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309