AIA CHICAGO 8B: Writing in the Bronze Age. January 7, 2024 Tom Palaima “Chairs and Stools and their Status Implications in the Pylos Ta ‘Totenmahl’ Inventory” INTRODUCTION: Tom Palaima says he is someone who has been lucky to work literally for 50 years now on Linear B, for forty-nine years… read more
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I Pity the Poor Immigrant: Celebrating the Gradually Un-forgotten Life and Work of Alice Kober
On May 23, 2023, Tom Palaima, University of Texas at Austin Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP), presented on Zoom this key-note opening lecture for the National Archaeology Week 2023 at Macquarie University, Australia, in connection with their exhibition Mysteries Revisited: From… read more
Reminiscences on Mentors
by Tom Palaima Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory Ten years ago I wrote a feature piece for the Times Higher Education on mentors as a kind of endangered species (see PDF version here). In thinking back now on the nearly fifty… read more