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
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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
Personal and PASPian Perspectives on ‘Mysteries Revisited’ : Alice Kober, John Franklin Daniel, Michael Ventris and Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. as Founders of Scientific Research on Aegean and Cypriote Scripts
by Tom Palaima Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory In December 1946, in a clear sloping hand, on super-thin post-war paper, Kober wrote Sir John Myres: ‘I must confess, strong as the statement sounds, that I would gladly go to the ends… read more