August 22, 2020 “Introducing a new play about the skew lives of Alice Kober and Michael Ventris” with further readings appended by Tom Palaima, FSA §a1 We at PASP are pleased to report that an emotionally perceptive, moving and intellectually engrossing play has been written that explores what we might… read more
A Love Letter to Cyprus and Its Coffee by Cassie Donnelly
August 8, 2020 Cassandra Donnelly is a PASP fellow and PhD student in the Classics Department at the University of Texas. She is writing her dissertation on the Cypro-Minoan script. She thanks the Archaeological Institute of America for funding her travel abroad. Read her first travels in Cambridge last year… read more
Commemorating John Chadwick’s 100th Birthday by Tom Palaima
21 May 2020 marked the 100th birthday of John Chadwick, FBA, the closest post-decipherment collaborator with Michael Ventris. The two worked intensely together for four years, according to the truly loving British Academy biographical memoir written by John T. Killen and the late Anna Morpurgo Davies. He was a richly… read more