This page is a directory of published works on Aegean Scripts and history by past and present PASP fellows. It is continually added to as of February 2023. Please check back for more works as they become available!
- Articles by Tom Palaima
- Poetry by Tom Palaima
- Book Reviews by Tom Palaima
- Articles by Joann Gulizio, Kevin Pluta, and Tom Palaima
- Articles by Kevin Pluta
- Articles by Joann Gulizio
- Articles by Aren Wilson-Wright
- Articles by Sarah James
- Articles by Amanda Krauss
- Articles by Susan Lupack
- Articles by Dimitri Nakassis
- Articles by Dimitri Nakassis and Kevin Pluta
- Book Reviews by Dimitri Nakassis
- Articles by Stephie Nikoloudis
- Articles by Susanne Hofstra
- Articles and Reviews by Cassandra Donnelly
- Articles by Kathleen Cox
- Articles by Peter van Alfen
- Articles by Vassilis Petrakis
- Book Review by Lisa Bendall
- Articles by Jerome Eisenberg
- Biographical pieces on Tom Palaima
- Brochure for the Linear B artwork of Nikos Samartzidis
Articles by Tom Palaima, sorted in chronology by Year
You will find Tom Palaima’s Writing on War , studies on Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan , poetry, and Editorials and Feature Articles on his personal website. His studies on War and Violence cover the experience and conduct of wars through time in connection with his longstanding teaching, scholarly and public intellectual research and thoughts about how and why human societies and human beings use violence and how they respond to experiences of violence, culturally sanctioned or not, and what results from their responses. Materials include book reviews, articles, commentary, recorded lectures and performances of Warrior Chorus.
1979
“Note on Vase Inscription KH Z1,” Nestor 6:6 (1979) 1378-1379 || PDF Download
1980
“Observations on Pylian Epigraphy,” Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 21 (1980) 193-203 || PDF Download
1981
“On the Painted Linear Sign from a Wall at Knossos,” Kadmos 20 (1981) 79-82 || PDF Download
1982
“The Organization of Scribal Administration at Pylos,” Acts of the Second International Congress of Peloponnesian Studies, Patras, Greece, May 25-31, 1980 [Athens, 1982] 314-320, plates 14-16 || PDF Download
“Linear A in the Cyclades: The Trade and Travel of a Script,” Temple University Aegean Symposium 7 (1982) 15-22. || PDF Download
1983
“Evidence for the Influence of the Knossian Graphic Tradition at Pylos,” Concilium Eirene XVI ,Proceedings of the 16th International Eirene Congress, Prague, 31.8-4.9 1982 (Prague 1983) 80-84, plates I-II || PDF Download
1984
“Scribal Organization and Palatial Activity,” Pylos Comes Alive, 31-39. 1984 || PDF Download
“An Inscribed Stirrup Jar of Cretan Origin from Bamboula, Cyprus,” Kadmos 23 (1984) 65-73 [with P. Betancourt and G.E. Myer] || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Archaeology and the Pylos Texts,” Archaeological Review from Cambridge 3:2 (1984) 76-89 [with C.W. Shelmerdine] || PDF Download
“Inscribed Stirrup Jars and Regionalism in Linear B Crete,” Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 25 (1984) 189-203 || PDF Download
1985
“Secondary Criteria for Identifying Scribal Hands: Interdisciplinary Considerations,” Text 2 (1985) 55-67. || PDF Download
Appendix to P. Åström, K.-E. Sjöquist, Pylos: Palmprints and Palm Leaves (Göteborg 1985) 99-107 || PDF Download
“Ins and Outs of the Archives Rooms at Pylos: Form and Function in a Mycenaean Palace,” American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985) 251-262 [with J.C. Wright] || PDF Download
“Short, Short Story Complete on This Page,” ASCSA Newsletter (Fall 1985) 5 || PDF Download
1987
“Comments on Mycenaean Literacy,” in J.T. Killen, J.L. Melena, J.-P. Olivier eds., Studies in Mycenaean and Classical Greek Presented to John Chadwick (Minos 20-22, Salamanca 1987) 499-510. || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Seals and Sealings in Their Economic and Administrative Contexts,” in P.H. Ilievski and L. Crepajac eds., Tractata Mycenaea, Proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Held in Ohrid, 15-20 September 1985 (Skopje 1987) 249-266. || PDF Download
“Preliminary Comparative Textual Evidence for Palatial Control of Economic Activity in Minoan and Mycenaean Crete,” The Function of the Minoan Palaces, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June, 1984 (Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 4°, XXXV, Stockholm 1987) 301-305. || PDF Download
1988
“The Development of the Mycenaean Writing System,” in J.-P. Olivier and Th. G. Palaima eds., Texts, Tablets and Scribes: Studies in Mycenaean Epigraphy and Economy Offered to Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. (Minos 10, Salamanca 1988) 269-342. || PDF Download
1989
“Perspectives on the Pylos Oxen Tablets: Textual (and Archaeological) Evidence for the Use and Management of Oxen in the Late Bronze Age Messenia (and Crete),” Studia Mycenaea (1989), 85-124. || PDF Download
“Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context,” Problems in Decipherment, 121-187. 1989. || PDF Download
“Ideograms and Supplementals and Regional Interaction among Aegean and Cypriote Scripts,” Minos 24 (1989) 29-54. || PDF Download
1990
“The Purposes and Techniques of Administration in Minoan and Mycenaean Society,” in T.G. Palaima ed., Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration, Aegaeum vol. 5 (Liège 1990) 83-104, pls. VII-XV [=ASSA] || PDF Download
Round-Table Comments, in ASSA , 242-247 || PDF Download
1991
“Maritime Matters in the Linear B Texts,” in R. Laffineur and L. Basch eds., Thalassa. L’Égée prehistorique et la mer, Aegaeum 7 (Liège 1991) 273-310, pl. LXIII. || PDF Download
“The Advent of the Greek Alphabet on Cyprus: A Competition of Scripts,” in C. Baurain et al. eds., Phoinikeia Grammata, Collections d’Études Classiques vol. 6 (Namur 1991) 449-471. || PDF Download
“Late Bronze Age Aegean Ships and the Pylos Tablets Vn 46 and Vn 879,” Minos. 25-26 (1990-91) 297-317. || PDF Download
1992
“The Knossos Oxen Dossier: The Use of Oxen in Mycenaean Crete. Part I: General Background and Scribe 107,” in J.-P. Olivier ed., Mykenaika (BCH Supplément XXV: Paris 1992) 463-474. || PDF Download
“Ten Reasons Why KH 115 ≠ KN 115,” Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 261-281 || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Scribal Aesthetics,” in R. Laffineur and J. Crowley eds., TEKHNE. Aegean Bronze Age Iconography : Shaping a Methodology, Aegaeum 8 (Liège 1992) 63-75, pls. XX-XXIII. || PDF Download
1993
“Michael Ventris’s Blueprint,” Discovery . Research and Scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin 13:2 (1993) 20-26. || PDF Download
1994
“Seal-Users and Script-Users / Nodules and Tablets at LM I B Hagia Triada” and “Response to Paper of G. Fissore,” in P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra, et al. eds., Archives Before Writing (Pubblicazioni del centro Internazionale di Ricerche Archeologiche Antropologiche e Storiche I: Turin 1994) 307-337, 355-361 (with discussions) || PDF Download
1995
“The Nature of the Mycenaean Wanax: Non-Indo-European Origins and Priestly Functions,” in P. Rehak ed., The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean , Aegaeum 11 (Liège 1995) 119-139, plates XLI-XLII. || PDF Download
“The Last Days of the Pylos Polity,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier eds., Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 12 (Liège 1995) 623-633, plate LXXIV. || PDF Download
“A Linear B Tablet from Heidelberg,” in Politeia, 699-670 || PDF Download
1996
“‘Contiguities’ in the Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in E. de Miro, L. Godart, A. Sacconi eds., Atti e memorie del secondo congresso interazionale di micenologia (Rome 1996) 379-396. || PDF Download
with I. Hajnal, A. Kolosimo, J.-P. Olivier, C.J. Ruijgh, “Linear B in the Bay of Naples,” Atti e memorie, 1645-1648. || PDF Download
“Sealings as Links in an Administrative Chain,” in P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra and G.G. Fissore eds., Administration in Ancient Societies, Acts of Session 218 of the 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City July 29-August 5, 1993 (Turin 1996) 37-66. || PDF Download
1997
“Potter and Fuller: The Royal Craftsmen,” in R. Laffineur and P.P. Betancourt eds., Tekhne, Aegaeum 16 (Liège 1997) 407-412 || PDF Download
“PH Up 1996,” in R. Laffineur and P.P. Betancourt eds., Tekhne , Aegaeum 16 (Liège 1997) 539-543. || PDF Download
1998
“Linear B and the Origins of Greek Religion: ‘di-wo-nu-so‘,” in N. Dimoudis and A. Kyriatsoulis eds., The History of the Hellenic Language and Writing: From the Second to the First Millennium B.C.: Break or Continuity?, Acts of the 2nd International Conference of the Society for the Study and Spreading of Hellenic History Held at Ohlstadt, Germany 03.-06.10.1996 (DZA Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft GmBH: Altenburg 1998 ISBN 3-9806602-0-6) 205-222; discussion 223-224 || PDF Download
“Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King?” in J. Bennet and J. Driessen eds., A-NA-QOTA. Festschrift for J.T. Killen (Minos 33-34: Salamanca 1998-1999) 205-221. || PDF Download
“po-re-na : A Mycenaean Reflex in Homer? An I-E Figure in Mycenaean?” in Minos 31-32 (1996-97 [98]) 303-312. || PDF Download
“’Linear Scripts’” in Encyclopedia Americana 1998 (Grolier 1998) 523-524. || PDF Download
1999
(with Elizabeth Sikkenga) “Linear A > Linear B,” MELETEMATA. Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year (Aegaeum 20: Liège and Austin 1999) 599-608. || PDF Download
“Classics: Apocalypse Now or Working Toward the Future?” Classical Bulletin 75.1 (1999) 85-97, a special issue devoted to the current state and future of Classics edited by L. Golden and K. Herbert. || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Militarism from a Textual Perspective. Onomastics in Context: lawos, damos, klewos,” in R. Laffineur ed., Polemos: Warfare in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 19: Liège and Austin 1999) 367-378. || PDF Download
“A Linear B Inscribed Galet from Liège: LIE Ga 1998 A Gaufre or ‘Galet’,” in R. Laffineur ed., Polemos: Warfare in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 19: Liège and Austin 1999) 507-511. || PDF Download
“Kn02 – Tn 316,” in S. Deger-Jalkotzy et al. eds., Floreant Studia Mycenaea. Akten des X. Internationalen Mykenologischen Colloquiums in Salzburg vom 1.-5. Mai 1995 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften 274: Vienna 1999) Band II, 437-461. || PDF Download
2000
(with E. Pope and F. Kent Reilly) Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, March 9–August 1, 2000 (Austin 2000) Pp. vi + 34. 24 text figures. [rev. THES (09/01/00) 25; AJA 106 (2002) 602-604] || PDF Download
“The Pylos Ta Series: From Michael Ventris to the New Millennium,” in BICS 44 (2000) 236-237. || PDF Download
“MA Tn 249: A Linear B Tablet from Marburg with Ritual Information and Graffiti,” in Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik, 361-368. || PDF Download
“Courage and Prowess Afoot in Homer and the Vietnam of Tim O’Brien,” Classical and Modern Literature 20/3 (2000) 1-22. || PDF Download
“The Palaeography of Mycenaean Inscribed Sealings from Thebes and Pylos, Their Place Within the Mycenaean Administrative System and Their Links With the Extra-Palatial Sphere,” in W. Mueller ed., Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik. Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion (CMS Beiheft 6: Mainz 2000) 219-238. || PDF Download
“themis in the Mycenaean Lexicon and the Etymology of the Place-Name *ti-mi-to a-ko,” Faventia 22/1 (2000) 7-19. || PDF Download
“Transactional Vocabulary in Linear B Tablet and Sealing Administration,” in M. Perna ed., Administrative Documents in the Aegean and their Near Eastern Counterparts. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Naples, February 29-March 2, 1996 (Turin 2000) 261-276. || PDF Download
2001
“The Modalities of Economic Control at Pylos,” KTEMA 26 (2001) 151-159. || PDF Download
“Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets,” in R. Hägg and R. Laffineur eds., Potnia (Aegeaum 22: Liège and Austin 2001) 453-461 [with J. Gulizio and K. Pluta]. || PDF Download
“A Linear-B-Inscribed ‘Herring’ from Göteborg: An Ichthyomorphic Epiphany,” in Potnia, 485-491. || PDF Download
2002
“The Browning Version’s and Classical Greek,” in B. Amden, P. Flensted-Jensen, T.H. Nielsen, A. Schwartz, and Chr. G. Tortzen eds., Noctes Atticae. Studies in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Its Nachleben (Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2002 ISBN: 87-72-89-778-3) 199-214. || PDF Download
2003
“The Inscribed Bronze ‘Kessel’ from Shaft Grave IV and Cretan Heirlooms of the Bronze Age Artist named ‘Aigeus’ vel sim. in the Mycenaean Palatial Period,” in Y. Duhoux ed., BRICIAKA. A Tribute to W. C. Brice = Cretan Studies 9 [2003] 187-201, pl. XXXI. || PDF Download
“OL Zh 1: Quousque tandem ?” Minos 37-38 (2002-2003) pp. 373-385. || PDF Download
“‘Archives’ and ‘Scribes’ and Information Hierarchy in Mycenaean Greek Linear B Records,” in Maria Brosius ed., Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003) 153-194 figs. 8.1-8.9. || PDF Download
“Reviewing the New Linear B tablets from Thebes,” Kadmos 42 (2003) 31-38. || PDF Download
“Archaeology and Text: Decipherment, Translation and Interpretation,” in J.K. Papadopoulos and R.M. Leventhal eds., Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives (Cotsen Advanced Seminars 1, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles 2003) pp. 45-73, bibliography 319-378. || PDF Download
2004
“Mycenaean Accounting Methods and Systems and Their Place Within Mycenaean Palatial Civilization,” in C. Wunsch and Michael Hudson eds., Creating Economic Order: Record-Keeping, Standardization and the Development of Accounting in the Ancient Near East , International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies Vol. 4 (Baltimore: CDL Press 2004) 269-301. || PDF Download
“Linear B Sources” in S. Trzaskoma et al. eds., Anthology of Classical Myth (Hackett Publishing: Indianapolis/Cambridge 2004) 439-454. || PDF Download
“Sacrificial Feasting in the Linear B tablets,” in J. C. Wright ed., The Mycenaean Feast, Hesperia 73.2 (2004) 217-246. || PDF Download
“Syntax and Context as Tools for Interpreting Mycenaean Texts and Scribal Processes: Un 718, Ta 709 and K(1) 740,” in T. Krisch, T. Lindner and U. Müller eds., Analecta Homini Universali Dicata = Festschrift Oswald Panagl, Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik Nr. 421 (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz 2004) 268-278. || PDF Download
“The Texas Professoriate and Public Political Discourse Before and After 9/11,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1:1 (2004) 89-99. || PDF Download
2005
“Why Do Wars Begin?” H. Swain ed., Big Questions in History (London: Jonathan Cape 2005) 129-134. || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Ideograms and Their Use,” M. Perna ed., Studi in Onore di Enrica Fiandra: Contributi di archeologia egea evicinorientale (Paris: De Bocccard 2005) 267-283. || PDF Download
The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Written Sources for Cypriote History (Annual Lecture 2004: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation 2005). Pp. 64. || PDF Download
2006
“FAR? or ju? and other interpretative conundra in the new Thebes Tablets,” in S. Deger-Jalkotzy and O. Panagl eds., Die Neuen Linear B-Texte aus Theben (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2006) pp. 139-148. || PDF Download
“wanaks and Related Power Terms in Mycenaean and Later Greek,” S. Deger-Jalkotzy and I. Lemos eds., Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006) 53-71. || PDF Download
2007
“Ilios, Tros and Tlos: Continuing Problems with to-ro, to-ro-o, to-ro-wo, to-ro-ja, wi-ro and a-si-wi-ja/a-si-wi-jo” in F. Lang,C. Reiholdt and J. Weilhärtner, eds. ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΕΙΟΣ Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Phoibos Verlag Vienna 2007) 197-204 || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View,” in S.P. Morris and R. Laffineur eds., Epos . Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology (Aegeaum 28: Liège and Austin 2007) 129-140 || PDF Download
“Civilian Knowledge of War and Violence in Ancient Athens and Modern America,” in Michael Cosmopoulos ed., Experiencing War: Trauma and Society from Ancient Greece to the Iraq War (Chicago 2007) 9-34. ISBN 0-89005-606-4978 || PDF Download
2008
“The Significance of Mycenaean Words Relating to Meals, Meal Rituals, and Food,” in Louise A. Hitchcock, Robert Laffineur and Janice Crowley eds., DAIS. The Aegean Feast. Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference University of Melbourne, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, 25-29 March 2008. Aegaeum 29, Liège and Austin: 2008, pp. 383-389 || PDF Download
“A New Linear B Inscription from the Land Down Under,” in Louise A. Hitchcock, Robert Laffineur and Janice Crowley eds., DAIS. The Aegean Feast. Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference University of Melbourne, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, 25-29 March 2008. Aegaeum 29, Liège and Austin: 2008, pp. 429-432 || PDF Download
“Mycenaean Religion,” in C.W. Shelmerdine, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (CUP 2008) 342-355, 358-361. || PDF Download
2009
“Continuity from the Mycenaean Period in an historical Boeotian Cult of Poseidon (and Erinys),” in D. Danielidou ed., Doron: Timetikos Tomos gia ton Kathegete Spyro Iakobide (Academy of Athens Center for Research in Antiquity Monograph 6: Athens 2009) 527-536. || PDF Download
2010
“Writing Systems, Aegean,” in M. Gagarin ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford 2009) || PDF Download
“Linear B,” in E. Cline ed., Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010) 356-372. || PDF Download
“Banning Books in Schools Promotes Ignorance and Intolerance,” in NoСl Merino ed., Censorship (Greenhaven Press 2010) 71-75. || PDF Download
2011
“Euboea, Athens and Thebes: The Implications of the Linear B References,” in D. W. Rupp, J. E. Tomlinson et al. (eds.) Euboea and Athens: Proceedings of a Colloquium in Memory of Malcolm B. Wallace. Athens, 26-27 June 2009 Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, No. 6, 2011, pp. 53-76. || PDF Download
“Scribes, Scribal Hands and Palaeography,” in Y. Duhoux and A. Morpurgo Davies eds., A Companion to Linear B Texts (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 127:2 Peeters: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2011) pp. 33-136. || PDF Download
“Songs of the ‘Hard Traveler’ from Odysseus to the Never-Ending Tourist,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 26-27 (2010/2011 [2012]) 189-207. || PDF Download
2012
“Kosmos in the Mycenaean Texts: The Response of Mycenaean ‘Scribes’ to the Culture of Kosmos,” M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur eds., Kosmos : Jewellery, Adornment and Textile in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 33, Leuven – Liège 2012) 697-703 + figures CLIX-CLX. || PDF Download
“KO Ko 2010 Cloth fragments of the Rapinewiad, ” in M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur eds., Kosmos : Jewellery, Adornment and Textile in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 33, Leuven – Liège 2012) pp. 807-810. || PDF Download
“Security and Insecurity as Tools of Power in Mycenaean Palatial Kingdoms,” Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIII[e] colloque international sur les textes égéens, Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010, édités par Pierre Carlier, Charles De Lamberterie, Markus Egetmeyer, Nicole Guilleux, Françoise Rougemont, Julien Zurbach, 2012, pp. XXVIII-616 Pasiphae Pisa-Rome 2012, 345-356. || PDF Download
“Single-Sex Education: Parameters Too Narrow,” Science 13 January 2012: 166. || PDF Download
2013
“The Legacy of War in the Classical World,” with Larry Tritle in Brian Campbell and Larry Tritle eds. The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World (OUP 2013) 726-742 || PDF Download
“Robert Graves’s War Poems,” in Wm. Roger Louis ed., Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia || PDF Download
2014
“Pylos Tablet Vn 130 and the Pylos Perfume Industry,” in D. Nakassis et al. eds., KE-RA-ME-JA. Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (INSTAP Press: Philadelphia 2014) 83-90 || PDF Download
“When War Is Performed, What Do Soldiers and Veterans Want to Hear and See and Why?” in P. Meineck and D. Konstan eds. Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks (Palgrave MacMillan 2014) 261-285 || PDF Download
“Harnessing phusis: The ideology of control and exploitation of the natural world as reflected in terminology in the Linear B texts derived from Indo-European *bheh2u- ‘grow, arise, be’ and *h2eg-ro- ‘the uncultivated wild field’ and other roots related to the natural environs,” PHYSIS, (Aegaeum 37, Leuven 2014) 93-99. || PDF Download
“The Linear-B-Inscribed Triton PAR Ph 2012 and Its Lessons About Phusis,” in F. Rougemont, R. Laffineur et al. eds., PHYSIS: Natural environment and human interaction in the prehistoric Aegean (Aegaeum 39, Leuven 2014) 563-568. || PDF Download
“The Foundations of Violence in Ancient Greek Literature” in S. Peebles, ed., Critical Insights: Violence in Literature (Salem Press 2014) 3-22. || PDF Download
with William Bibee, “Scribes, Mycenaean” in Emilio Crespo et al., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Brill) vol. 3, pp. 265-272 || PDF Download
with William Bibee, “Linear A” in Emilio Crespo et al., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Brill) vol. 2, pp. 353-355 || PDF Download
“The reception of Aura Jorro’s Diccionario Micénico in Mycenaean studies,” in Alberto Bernabé & Eugenio R. Luján eds., Donum Mycenologicum, BCILL 131 (Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve 2014) 87-94. || PDF Download
2015
“The Mobilization of Labor in Mycenaean Palatial Territories,” in Piotr Steinkeller and Michael Hudson, eds., Labor in the Ancient World (ISLET-Verlag, Dresden 2015) 617-648. || PDF Download
“The Sorrowful History of The Half-Life of War” on-line essay on the documentary film by Kyle Henry, The Half-Life of War. || PDF Download
“La Grecia micénica: Una sociedad marcada por la guerra,” Desperta Ferro Historia Militar y Politica de la Aneigüedad y el Medievo 30 (June 2015) 20-25. || PDF Download
“Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance?” in A.G.G. Gibson, ed., Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition (Oxford University Press 2015) 233-254. || PDF Download
2016
“The Ideology of the Ruler in Mycenaean Prehistory: Twenty Years after the Missing Ruler.” in Robert Koehl ed., Studies in Aegean Art and Culture: A New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium in Memory of Ellen N. Davis. INSTAP Academic Press 2016. || PDF Download
with Christopher McDonough, “Two Linear B Traveling Inscriptions from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and the Impact of the Decipherment of Linear B on the Scholarly and Public Imagination,” in J. Driessen ed., RA-PI-NE-U Studies on the Mycenaean World Offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday (Aegis 10, Louvain-la-Neuve 2016) 233-244. || PDF Download
“WI Fc 2014: When Is an Inscribed Cigar Just a Cigar?,” in Eva Alram-Stern, Fritz Blakolmer, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, J. Weilhartner and R. Laffineur et al. eds., METAPHYSIS: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 39: 2016) 595-600. || PDF Download
“The Metaphysical Mind in Mycenaean Times and Homer,” in E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur & J. Weilhartner (eds), Metaphysis. Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 39: 2016) 479-484. || PDF Download
“War Stories Told, Untold and Retold from Troy to Tinian to Fort Campbell,” Arion 23:3 (2016) 1-33. || PDF Download
2017
“Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., Michael G.F. Ventris, Alice E. Kober, Cryptanalysis, Decipherment and the Phaistos Disc,” in M.-L. Nosch and H. Landenius-Enegren eds., Aegean Scripts, (Incunabula Graeca 105, Rome: 2017) vol. 2, 771-788. || PDF Download
2018
“Faces and Attachment in Homer and Later War Writing,” in Lawrence A. Tritle and Jason W. Warren eds., The Many Faces of War (Marymount Institute Press, Los Angeles: in print 2018) pp. 69-94. || PDF Download
“Masters of War: Virgil, Horace, Owen, Pound, Trumbo, Dylan and the Art of Reference,” in Peter E. Knox, Hayden Pelliccia, Alexander Sens eds., They Keep It All Hid: Augustan Poetry, Its Antecedents and Reception (de Gruyter, 2018). pp. 147-168. || PDF Download
2019
“The Importance of Memory, Memory Triggers, and Memory Agents in Mycenaean and Later Greek Culture: Some Linear B, Epic and Classical Evidence,” in Elisabetta Borgna, Ilaria Caloi, Filippo Carinci & Robert Laffineur (eds), MNHMH/MNEME: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age (Leuven, Peeters 2019) 591-600 + figures CCIV – CCVII || PDF Download
“Linear B VE Vd 2018 A Memorial Sēma: Remembering Life, Work, Love and Death in Venice,” in Elisabetta Borgna, Ilaria Caloi, Filippo Carinci & Robert Laffineur (eds), MNHMH/MNEME: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age (Leuven, Peeters 2019) 777-782 || PDF Download
2020
“Warfare in Homer,” in C. Pache with S. Lupack, C. Due and & R. Lamberton eds., Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge University Press. 2020. 395-398 || PDF Download
“Basileus and Anax in Homer and Mycenaean Greek Texts,” in C. Pache with S. Lupack, C. Due and & R. Lamberton eds., Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge University Press. 2020. 300-302 || PDF Download
“Problems in Minoan and Mycenean Writing Style and Practice: The Strange Case of *33 ra3 on Pylos Tablet Aa 61,” in Brent Davis, Robert Laffineur (eds.), NEΩTEΡOΣ: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology In Honor of Professor John G. Younger On the Occasion of His Retirement (Leuven, Peeters 2020) 3-14 + figures I-VII. || PDF Download
with Michael Lesy and Al Martinich, “Immigration and Decency,”in Athenaeum Review Issue 3 (Winter 2020), pp. 72-83. || PDF Download
with Al Martinich, “Reconciliation in Police-Black Relations: Straight-Talk Advice from Homer, Aeschylus and Mandela,” in Athenaeum Review. July 24, 2020|| Online URL
Tom Palaima and Nicholas G. Blackwell, “Pylos Ta 716 and Mycenaean Ritual Paraphernalia: A Reconsideration,” SMEA NS 6 (2020) 67-95 || PDF Download
Tom Palaima, “Porphureion and Kalkhion and Minoan-Mycenaean Murex Dye Manufacture and Use,” in V. Apostolakou, T.M. Brogan, and P.P. Betancourt, Alatzomouri Pefka A Middle Minoan IIB Workshop Making Organic Dyes (INSTAP Academic Press: Philadelphia 2020) 123-128. || PDF Download
MASt 2: “The Etymology of Mycenaean pe-re-ke-u and a-ke-te-ri-ja and Related Forms,” Meetings on Aegean Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies on-line publication Classical Inquiries MASt @ chs June 26, 2020. §§3-32 || PDF Download || Online URL
MASt 3: “IE *h2er– Greek *ar– and Order,” Meetings on Aegean Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies on-line publication Classical Inquiries MASt @ chs November 6, 2020 || PDF Download || Online URL
“Iklaina, ΤΡΑΓΑΝΕΣ, a-pu2, and Αἰπύ,” in ΚΥΔΑΛΙΜΟΣ. Τιμητικός Τόμος για τομ Καθηγητή Γεώργιο Στυλ. Κορρέ vol. 2, AURA Supplement 4 (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of History and Archaeology: Athens 2020) 385-397. || PDF Download
2021
“Caring for and Nourishing Animals and Humans in Linear B and Homer: Ideological Considerations,” in R. Laffineur and T.G. Palaima eds., ZOIA: Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age, Aegaeum Annales liégeoises et PASPiennes d’archéologie égéenne 45 (Peeters: Leuven – Liege 2021) 379-394. || PDF Download
“Papyrus Dilemma,” Summer MASt@chs Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies July 23, 2021. §26.1 ff. || Online URL
with Nicholas Blackwell, “Further Discussion of pa-sa-ro on Pylos Ta 716: Insights from the Ayia Triada Sarcophagus,” SMEA NS 7 (2021) 21-37 || PDF Download
2022
“Pa-ki-ja-ne, Pa-ki-ja-na, Pa-ki-ja-ni-ja,” in TA-U-RO-QO-RO Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez, edd. Julián Méndez Dosuna, Thomas G. Palaima, Carlos Varias García, Hellenic Studies Series 94, Harvard University Press, 173-196. ISBN 9780674272576 Publication Date: 08/09/2022. || PDF Download || Online URL
with Carlos Varias Garcia, “Preface,” in TA-U-RO-QO-RO Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez, edd. Julián Méndez Dosuna, Thomas G. Palaima, Carlos Varias García, Hellenic Studies Series 94, Harvard University Press, xi-xiv. ISBN 9780674272576 Publication Date: 08/09/2022. || PDF Download || Online URL
with Garrett Bruner, “Afterword. How Far We Have Come in Mycenology in Seventy Years,” in TA-U-RO-QO-RO Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez, edd. Julián Méndez Dosuna, Thomas G. Palaima, Carlos Varias García, Hellenic Studies Series 94, Harvard University Press, 259-266. ISBN 9780674272576 Publication Date: 08/09/2022. || PDF Download || Online URL
Poetry by Tom Palaima
“Monad Noir (translation of Horace Carm. 1.38),” Arion Third Series 3.2&3 (Fall 1995/Winter 1996) 177-178. || PDF Download
“As Told To Wallace Terry,” War, Literature and the Arts 15 (2003) 171-172 || PDF Download
“Grassy Knoll Covid Morning” in Athenaeum Review. July 12, 2020. || PDF Download (includes only the photo and poem, not the accompanying text) || Online URL
“Temporary like Achilles #2” and “Kerouacts 1-6,” The CI Poetry Project Recomposing Heroes of Classical Inquiries Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies Oct 8 2020 || PDF Download || Online URL
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II ‘Don’t Look Now: Reading Aloud to Ghosts’. The
III ‘Strutting and Fretting’. The
“Kyrie, Eleison” in Athenaeum Review. Issue 7. Summer 2022. || PDF Download
Book Reviews by Tom Palaima
1982
E. Courtney, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal in CW 75 (1982) 190-191. || PDF Download
1983
J.R. Jenkinson, Persius, Satires: An Annotated Translation, and R.A. Harvey, A Commentary on Persius in CW 76 (1983) 185-186. || PDF Download
1985
A.H. Bikaki, Keos IV : The Potters’ Marks in AJA 89 (1985) 529-530. || PDF Download
1987
A. Morpurgo Davies and Y. Duhoux, Linear B: A 1984 Survey, and L. Godart and J.-P. Olivier, Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, Volume 5 in AJA 91:2 (1987) 336-337. || PDF Download
1989
J. Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume 1 (1-1063), in AJA 93:2 (1989) 294-296. || PDF Download
1991
M. Bernal, Cadmean Letters (Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns 1990) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454 || PDF Download
K.-E. Sjöquist & P. Åström: Knossos: Keepers and Kneaders with an appendix by J.-P. Olivier (SIMA Pocket-Book 82: Göteborg, Paul Åströms Förlag 1991) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454. || PDF Download
J.T. Hooker intro., Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Berkeley, University of California Press/British Museum 1991) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454 || PDF Download
J. DeFrancis, Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press 1989) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454 || PDF Download
B.B. Powell, Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991) in Minos 25-26 || PDF Download
1993
K. I. Gallis, Atlas of Prehistoric Settlements of the Eastern Thessalian Plain (in Greek), Larisa, Society of Historical Research of Thessaly,1992, pp. 240, insert maps at end, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 337-338 || PDF Download
Despoina Danielidou, Bibliography of Creto-Mycenaean Ritual (in Greek) (Academy of Athens Center for the Research of Antiquity 2), Anagnastopoulou 14 GR-106 73 Athens 1993, pp. 142. in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 338-339 || PDF Download
J.T. Hooker, Introduction to Linear B (in Greek) trans. K.E. Maravelias, prologue and editorial supervision V. Aravantinos, Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Greece: Athens 1994, pp. 325, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 339-341 || PDF Download
Berit Wells ed., Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens), Stockholm, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Ser. in 4°, XLII, 1992, pp. 178, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 341-343 || PDF Download
1994
Kevin Robb, Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece (New York, Oxford University Press 1994) in Minos 29-30 (1994-95) 392-397. || PDF Download
1996
M. Lefkowitz, NOT OUT OF AFRICA (BasicBooks, New York 1996) in National Review 48:5 (March 25, 1996) 54-55. || PDF Download
1997
A. Bernard Knapp ed., Near Eastern and Aegean Texts from the Third to the First Millennia BC (Sources for the History of Cyprus 2: Greece and Cyprus Research Center, Altamont, NY 1996) in AJA 101:3 (1997) 629 || PDF Download
1998
J.-P. Olivier and L. Godart eds., Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (Études Crétoises 31: Paris 1996) in AJA 102 (1998) 434-435 || PDF Download
1999
J. Chadwick et al. eds., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos vol. 4 (Cambridge and Rome 1999) in THES August 20, 1999, p. 23 || PDF Download
2000
Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein editors, War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds : Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe and Mesoamerica (Harvard U Pr: Cambridge MA, 1999) in THES. December 1, 2000, p. 34 || PDF Download
S. MacGillivray, Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth (London 2000) in THES. August 18, 2000, p. 19 || PDF Download
M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson eds., Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces (Cotsen Institute Monograph 41: UCLA 1999) in THES. June 9, 2000, p. 31 || PDF Download
2001
P. Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue (Oxford University Press 2001), in The American Prospect. 12:22 (December 17, 2001) 46-47 || PDF Download
M. Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back (Duke University Press 2001), in THES. December 21-28, 2001, p. 27 || PDF Download
J. Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume 4, in CW 95.1 (2001) 84-85 || PDF Download
J. and R.K. Morrison, From Camelot to Kent State (Oxford University Press 2001) in THES. October 12, 2001 || PDF Download
P. Cartledge, The Greeks: Crucible of Civilisation (BBC Worldwide 2001), in THES. March 30, 2001, p. 33 || PDF Download
L. Tritle, From Melos to Mylai: War and Survival (Routledge 2000) and L. Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam (OUP 2001), in THES. February 16, 2001, p. 30 || PDF Download
2002
V.L. Aravantinos, L. Godart and A. Sacconi eds., Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou, Édition et Commentaire (Thèbes Fouilles de la Cadmée 1) (Istituti Editoriali Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa and Rome 2001. ISBN 88-8147-228-7) in Minos 35-36 (2000-2001 [2002]) 475-486 || PDF Download
J.L. Melena, Textos griegos micénicos comentados (Eusko Legebiltzarra/Parlamento Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2001) in Minos 35-36 (2000-2001 [2002]) 494-496 || PDF Download
J. Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II (Harvard University Press 2002), in the London Times Higher Education Supplement. April 12, 2002, p. 24 || PDF Download
2003
V.L. Aravantinos, L. Godart and A. Sacconi eds., Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou, Édition et Commentaire (Thèbes Fouilles de la Cadmée 1) (Istituti Editoriali Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa and Rome 2001. ISBN 88-8147-228-7) in American Journal of Archaeology 107.1 (2003) 113-115 || PDF Download
J. Tatum, The Mourner’s Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam (University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2003 ISBN 0-226-78993-4) in THES. June 13, 2003, p. 28 || PDF Download
A. Robinson, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (Thames and Hudson, London and New York 2002 ISBN 0-500-51077-6) in American Journal of Archaeology 107 (2003) 296-297 || PDF Download
2004
Simon Goldhill, Love, Sex and Tragedy, in THES. September 24, 2004. || PDF Download
Stephen G. Miller, Ancient Greek Athletics (2004) and J. Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games 3rd ed. (2004) in History Today (September 2004) 56 || PDF Download
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC in THES. April 16, 2004. || PDF Download
R. Pogue Harrison, The Dominion of the Dead (2003) in History Today (April 2004) 56-57 || PDF Download
B. Katovsky and T. Carlson, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq. An Oral History (2003) in THES. January 30, 2004. || PDF Download
2005
J.H.W. Penney ed., Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies (2004) in THES. October 28, 2005 p. 26 (with Mark Southern) || PDF Download
P. Woodruff, First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea (2005) in History Today. July 2005, pp. 62-63 || PDF Download
R. Lane Fox ed., The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (2005) in THES. June 10, 2005. p. 28 || PDF Download
E. Bulwer-Lytton, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, edited by Oswyn Murray (2004) and G. E.M. de Ste. Croix, Athenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays, edited by David Harvey and Robert Parker (2004) in THES, March 18, 2005 || PDF Download
2006
P. Cartledge, Thermopylae (2006) in THES. October 13, 2006 || PDF Download
C. Gere, The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero (2006) in THES. August 18, 2006. || PDF Download
T. Gitlin, The Intellectuals and the Flag (2005) in THES. August 4, 2006 || PDF Download
P. Zagorin, Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader (2005) in THES. July 21, 2006. || PDF Download
R. Bittlestone, Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer’s Ithaca (2005) in THES. March 10, 2006. || PDF Download
P. Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire (2005) in THES. January 6, 2006. || PDF Download
2007
J. Dawes, That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (2007) in The Texas Observer, pp. 26-28 November 16, 2007. || PDF Download
G. Greenwald, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (2007) in The Texas Observer, November 16, 2007, pp. 23-25 || PDF Download
L. E. Navia, Socrates: A Life Examined (2007) and Emily Wilson, The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007) in THES. October 26, 2007. p. 21 || PDF Download
C.G. Appy, Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History Told from All Sides (2006) in THES. March 9, 2007. || PDF Download
A. Dalby, Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic (2006) in THES. January 12, 2007. || PDF Download
2008
Christopher Kelly, Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of Rome (2008) in THES. October 9, 2008. || PDF Download
W. Jeffrey Tatum, Always I Am Caesar (2008) in THES. August 7, 2008. || PDF Download
D. Milne, America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (2008) in The Texas Observer. May 30, 2008. || PDF Download
A. Pagden, Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West (2008) in THES. April 3, 2008. || PDF Download
2009
R. Glennon, Unquenchable and N. Downey, Harvesting the Rain in The Texas Observer, November 13, 2009 || PDF Download
W. Goetzman, Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism in The Texas Observer. October 30, 2009 || PDF Download
R. Jensen, All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice in The Texas Observer. August 19, 2009 || PDF Download
R. Shenkman, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter and M. Lux, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Come to Be in The Texas Observer. July 8, 2009 || PDF Download
Kevin Dettmar ed., The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan in THE. June 18, 2009 || PDF Download
Aaron Glantz, The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans in The Texas Observer. May 1, 2009. || PDF Download
Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans in The Texas Observer. March 20, 2009. || PDF Download
Margaret Malamud, Ancient Rome and Modern America (2008) in THE. February 12, 2009. || PDF Download
Chris Wickham, The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 (2009) in THE. February 5, 2009. Book of the Week || PDF Download
John Merriman, The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror in The Texas Observer (2009). January 9, 2009. || PDF Download
2010
L. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War (Wiley-Blackwell 2010) MiWSR. October 2, 2010 || PDF Download
W.W. Cook and J. Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition (U Chicago Press) in THE. August 12, 2010 || PDF Download
William S. Clayson, Freedom Is Not Enough: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas (University of Texas Press) in The Texas Observer. July 23, 2010, pp. 30-31 || PDF Download
D.J. Reavis, Catching Out: the Secret World of Day Laborers (Simon and Schuster) in The Texas Observer, March 5, 2010, p. 26 || PDF Download
Page duBois, Out of Athens (HUP) in THES. January 21, 2010 || PDF Download
2011
William Trevor, Selected Stories (Penguin 2011) in THE. December 8, 2011 || PDF Download
Roger Bagnall, Everyday Writing in the Greco-Roman East (U Cal Press 2011) in Libraries and the Cultural Record. September 6, 2011 || PDF Download
Alan Cameron, The Last Pagans of Rome (Oxford University Press 2011) in THE. September 1, 2011 || PDF Download
Robert Knapp, Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women…The Romans That History Forgot (Profile Books, 2011) Times Higher Education. August 18, 2011 || PDF Download
H.W. Brands, The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield : A Tragedy of the Gilded Age (Anchor Books, 2011) in The Texas Observer. July 1, 2011, pp. 25-26 || PDF Download
Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at Roman Games (Cambridge University Press, 2011) in THE. June 2, 2011 || PDF Download
D.L. Kriner and F.X. Shen, The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities (Oxford Univ Press: NY 2010) MiWSR. March 31, 2011 || PDF Download
J.G. Humphrey ed., A Texas Suffragist: Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum (Ellen C. Temple Publisher) in The Texas Observer. March 30, 2011 || PDF Download
D.J. Mattingly, Imperialism, Power and Identity (Princeton 2010) THE. March 24, 2011 || PDF Download
2012
Mary Beard, All in a Don’s Day (Profile 2012) in THE. May 10, 2012 || PDF Download
George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought from Hellenism to Celan (New Directions Press 2012) in THE. February 23, 2012 || PDF Download
2014
Richard Sorabji, Moral Conscience Through the Ages: Fifth century BCE to the Present (OUP 2014) in THE. October 16, 2014 || PDF Download
Marcus Sidonius Falx with Jerry Toner, How to Manage Your Slaves (Profile Books 2014) in THE. August 21, 2014 || PDF Download
Emily Mayhew, Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I (OUP NY: 2013) Michigan War Studies Review. April 14, 2014 || PDF Download
Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (Metropolitan Books 2013) Michigan War Studies Review. January 15, 2014 || PDF Download
2015
Brent Davis, Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions. (reviewed with Aren Wilson-Wright). AEGAEUM, 36. Leuven; Liège: Peeters, 2014. Pp. xxiv, 421. Bryn Mawr Classical Review || PDF Download
Andrew Hartmann, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (OUP 2014) in THE. May 21, 2015 || PDF Download
2016
Michael Adams, In Praise of Profanity (OUP 2016) in THE. October 20, 2016 || PDF Download
2017
David Wood, What We Have Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars (Little, Brown 2016) MiWSR. April 1, 2017 || PDF Download
Richard F. Thomas, Why Dylan Matters (William Collins, 2017) in THE. November 30, 2017. || PDF Download
2018
Ronald S. Coddington, Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Soldiers (JHU Press 2016) Michigan War Studies Review. February 5, 2018. || PDF Download
Richard F. Thomas, Why Bob Dylan Matters (NY: Harper Collins 2017) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.11.51 . November 28, 2018. || PDF Download
Mark K. Updegrove ed., A War Remembered: The Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library (Austin: Briscoe Center for American History, Univ. of Texas at Austin 2017) Michigan War Studies Review. July 9, 2018. || PDF Download
Ray E. Boomhower, Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert Sherrod (Bloomington, University of Indiana Press 2017) Michigan War Studies Review. December 7, 2018. || PDF Download
2019
Ovidio Garcia, My War, My Art (MCM Books: Hutto TX 2019). Michigan War Studies Review. February 15, 2019. || PDF Download
John Nixon, Debriefing the president: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein (New York: Blue Rider Press 2016). Michigan War Studies Review. April 12, 2019. || PDF Download
W.D. Ehrhart, Thank You For Your Service: Collected Poems (Jefferson NC: McFarland Press 2019). Michigan War Studies Review. July 31, 2019. || PDF Download
2020
Don McCullin, Unreasonable Behavior: An Autobiography (London: Jonathan Cape 2015). Michigan War Studies Review. May 1, 2020. || PDF Download
2022
(with Al Martinich) Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (New York: Little, Brown, 2021). Michigan War Studies Review. December 8, 2022. || Online URL
Unsorted works by Tom Palaima:
Humanities Research Center UT Austin Poetry on the Plaza; “Bob Dylan American Homer” March 1, 2006
Articles by Joann Gulizio, Kevin Pluta, and Tom Palaima
Articles by Kevin Pluta
Aegean Bronze Age literacy and its consequences, 2011. || UT Libraries Link
Articles by Joann Gulizio
Mycenaean religion at Knossos, 2011. || UT Libraries Link
Books, Articles, Chapters and Book Reviews by Aren Wilson-Wright
Books
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. Athtart: The Transmission and Transformation of a Goddess in the Late Bronze Age. Forschungen zum Alten Testament II/90. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016 || Publisher’s Website
Articles
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “ ‘Beloved of the Lady Are Those Who…’: A Recurring Memorial Formula in the Sinaitic Inscriptions.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 383 (2020): ||DOI URL
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Bethel and the Persistence of El: Evidence for the Survival of El as an Independent Deity in the Jacob Cycle and 1 Kings 12:25–30.” Journal of Biblical Literature 138.4 (2019): 705–720. || DOI URL
Na’ama Pat-El and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “The Subgrouping of Samalian: Arguments in Favor of an Independent Branch.” MAARAV 23.2 (2019): 371–387. || PDF Download
Na’ama Pat-El and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Features of Aramaeo-Canaanite.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.4 (2019): 781–806. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “The Helpful God: A Reevaluation of the Etymology and Character of (ˀēl) šadday.” Vetus Testamentum 69 (2019): 149–166. || PDF Download
Jonathan Kaplan and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “How Song of Songs Became a Divine Love Song.” Biblical Interpretation 26 (2018): 334–351. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Camping along the Ways of Horus: A Central Semitic Etymology for pî ha-ḥîrot.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 129.2 (2017): 261–264. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “A Reevaluation of the Semitic Direct Object Markers.” Hebrew Studies 57 (2016): 7–15. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Sinai 357: A Northwest Semitic Votive Inscription to Teššob.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.2 (2016): 247–263. || PDF Download
Na’ama Patel and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “The Features of Canaanite: A Reevaluation.” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 166.1 (2016): 41–55.|| PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright “Father, Brother, and Father-in-Law as III-w Nouns in Semitic.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 79 (2016): 23–32. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Love Conquers All: Song of Songs 8:6b–8:7a as a Reflex of the Northwest Semitic Combat Myth.” Journal of Biblical Literature 134.2 (2015): 333–345. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “From Persepolis to Jerusalem: A Reevaluation of Old Persian-Hebrew Contact in the Achaemenid Period.” Vetus Testamentum 65 (2015): 152–167. || PDF Download
John Huehnergard and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “A Compound Etymology for Biblical Hebrew zûlātî ‘Except’.” Hebrew Studies 55 (2014): 7–17. || PDF Download
“The Word for ‘One’ in Proto-Semitic,” Journal of Semitic Studies LIX/1 Spring 2014 || PDF Download
“Interpreting the Sinaitic Inscriptions in Context: A New Reading of Sinai 345,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (2013), 136-148 || PDF Download
Book Chapters
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “The Canaanite Languages.” In The Semitic Languages, 2nd ed., edited by John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El, 509–532. London: Routledge, 2019. || PDF Download
William E. Bibee and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “A Laryngeal in Linear B: Evidence from Ugaritic and Egyptian.” In Aegean Scripts: Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copehagen, 2–5 September 2015, edited by Marie-Louise Nosch and Hedvig Landenius Enegren, 713–748. Rome: Instituto di studi Mediterraneo antico, 2017. || PDF Download
Na’ama Pat-El and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Deir ‘Allā as a Canaanite Dialect: A Vindication of Hackett.” In Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett, edited by Jeremy M. Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin, 13–23. Atlanta: SBL, 2015. || PDF Download
Book Reviews
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Review of Estudios de lingüística ugarítica: Una selección.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139.4 (2019): 1003–1004. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Review of Baal and the Politics of Poetry.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.6.19. || PDF Download
Thomas G. Palaima and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Review of Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions.” With Thomas G. Palaima. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.11.36. || PDF Download
Aren M. Wislon-Wright. “Review of the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics.” Hebrew Higher Education 16 (2014): 255–258. || PDF Download
Na’ama Pat-El and Aren M. Wilson-Wright. “Features of Archaic Biblical Hebrew and the Linguistic Dating Debate. A Review of Vern, R. Dating Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry.” Hebrew Studies 54 (2013): 387–410. || PDF Download
Articles by Sarah James
Articles by Amanda Krauss
“i-je-ro and related terms,” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001) 39-50
Articles by Susan Lupack
“Helène Whittaker. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014),” European Journal of Archaeology 18, pp. 734–738. 2015. || PDF Download
“The Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project 2007–2010: The Intensive Surface Survey – Eleon,” Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 13, pp. 293–357. Co-authors: V. Aravantinos, Burns, B. Burke, Y. Fappas, and C. MacKay. 2016. || PDF Download
“Pu-ro, Pa-ki-ja-ne, and the Worship of an Ancestral Wanax,” in Metaphysis: Ritual, Myth, and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 39), eds. E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner, Liège and Austin, pp. 537–541. 2016. || PDF Download
“The Ea Series: It Takes a Village,” in Aegean Scripts: Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, Denmark, 2–5 September 2015 (Incunabula Graeca), eds. H. L. Enegren and M.-L. Nosch, Rome, pp. 347–362. 2017. || PDF Download
“The Bull and the Throne: Religious Festivals at Pylos,” in Mykene. Die sagenhafte Welt des Agamemnon/Mycenae: The Legendary World of Agamemnon, Philipp von Zabern, pp. 187-190. 2018. || PDF Download (German)
“The Race to Decode a Mysterious Language,” TEDEd. || URL to Video
The role of the religious sector in the economy of late Bronze Age Mycenaean Greece, 2002 || UT Libraries Link
Articles by Dimitri Nakassis
“Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King in Mycenaean Pylos,” Hesperia 81.1, 1–30.
“Named Individuals and the Mycenaean State at Pylos,” in Colloquium Romanum: Atti del XII colloquio internazionale di micenologia, vol. II, A. Sacconi, L. Godart and M. Del Freo, eds., Biblioteca di Pasiphae series, Rome 2008, pp. 549-561
“Athens, Kylon, and the Dipolieia,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51 (2011) 363–381
The individual and the Mycenaean state : agency and prosopography in the Linear B texts from Pylos, 2006 || UT Libraries Link
Articles by Dimitri Nakassis and Kevin Pluta
D. Nakassis and K. Pluta, “The Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in Odysseys, ed. M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakou (Athens: Archaeological Receipts Fund) 91-96. [=D. Nakassis and K. Pluta (2016) “Οι πινακίδες της Γραμμικής Β Γραφής της Πύλου,” in Οδύσσειες, ed. Μ. Λαγογιάννη-Γεωργακαράκου (Αθήνα – Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων) 91-96.] English PDF || Greek PDF
Reviews by Dimitri Nakassis
Articles by Stephie Nikoloudis
“Animal Sacrifice in the Mycenaean World,” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001) 32-38 || PDF Download
The ra-wa-ke-ta, ministerial authority and Mycenaean cultural identity, 2006. || UT Libraries Link
“The role of the ra-wa-ke-ta. Insights from PY Un 718,” Colloquium Romanum: Atti del XII colloquio internazionale di micenologia. Rome 2008, 587-594 || PDF Download
“Multiculturalism in the Mycenaean World,” in Billie Jean Collings, Mary R. Bachvarova, and Ian C. Rutherford (eds.), Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors. Proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction, September 17-19, 2004. Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Oxbow Books, 2008. 45-56 || PDF Download
“Bulls and Belonging: Another look at PY Cn 3,” in R. Laffineur, L.A. Hitchcock and J. Crowley (eds.). 2008. DAIS. The Aegean Feast, Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference, 25-29 March 2008, The University of Melbourne (Aegaeum 29). Liège-Austin: Université de Liège and UT-PASP. 377-382. || PDF Download
“Thoughts on a possible link between the PY Ea series and a Mycenaean tanning operation,” in P. Carlier et al. (eds.). 2012. Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIIIe colloque international sur les textes égéens, Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010. Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore. 285-302. || PDF Download
“Working the land: ka-ma plots at Pylos,” in D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio and S.A. James (eds.). 2014. KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press. 223-237. || PDF Download
“Tracking Eumedes, the unguent-boiler: Mycenaean textual and archaeological clues,” in H. Landenius Enegren and M.-L. Nosch (eds.). 2017. Aegean Scripts. 14 th International Congress, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015. Incunabula Graeca Vol. CV. Rome: CNR edizioni. 489-498. || PDF Download
“Mycenae,” in C. Pache with S. Lupack, C. Due and & R. Lamberton (eds.), Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge University Press. 2020. 357-360 || PDF Download
“Pylos,” in C. Pache with S. Lupack, C. Due and & R. Lamberton (eds.), Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge University Press. 2020. 375-377 || PDF Download
Articles by Susanne Hofstra
Aspects of the Textile Industry in Bronze Age Pylos, Greece, 1993. || UT Libraries Link
Small Things Considered: The Finds from LH IIIB Pylos in Context, 2000. || UT Libraries Link
Articles by Cassandra Donnelly
Mycenaean Scribal Practices: A Comparative Approach. Master’s Thesis. Brandeis University. 2015. || Word Download
Articles by Kathleen Cox
Ivory carving in the Bronze Age : the evidence of the Linear B texts and archaeology || UT Libraries Link
Articles by Peter van Alfen
Articles by Vassilis Petrakis
“to-no-e-ke-te-ri-jo reconsidered,” Minos 37-38, 2002-2003, pp. 293-316
Review by Lisa Bendall
review of Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect, 1980-1997, AJA 109 (2005) 91-94
Articles by Jerome Eisenberg
The Aesthetics of the Forger: Stylistic Criteria in Ancient Art Forgery. Minerva 3 (1992) 10-15.
“The Phaistos disk: A one hundred-year-old hoax?” Minerva July/August 2008: 9-24
Biographical pieces on Tom Palaima
from Alcalde November/December 2005, pp. 42-49
from burntORANGE Spring 2008, pp. 15, 46