Publications

Articles by Tom Palaima

“Michael Ventris’s Blueprint,” Discovery. Research and Scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin 13:2 (1993) 20-26

“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

“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

“Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King?” in J. Bennet and J. Driessen eds., A-NA-QO-TA. Festschrift for J.T. Killen (Minos 33-34: Salamanca 2002) 205-221

”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.

“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.

(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

“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

(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]

“Courage and Prowess Afoot in Homer and the Vietnam of Tim O’Brien,” Classical and Modern Literature 20/3 (2000) 1-22

“The Pylos Ta Series: From Michael Ventris to the New Millennium,” in BICS 44 (2000) 236-237.

“themis in the Mycenaean Lexicon and the Etymology of the Place-Name *ti-mi-to a-ko,” Faventia 22/1 (2000) 7-19

“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

“OL Zh 1: Quousque tandem?” Minos 37-38 (2002-2003) pp. 373-385

“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

“‘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

“Reviewing the New Linear B tablets from Thebes,” Kadmos 42 (2003) 31-38

“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.

“As Told To Wallace Terry,” War, Literature and the Arts 15 (2003) 171-172

“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

“Sacrificial Feasting in the Linear B tablets,” in J. C. Wright ed., The Mycenaean Feast, Hesperia 73.2 (2004) 217-246

“Linear B Sources” in S. Trzaskoma et al. eds., Anthology of Classical Myth (Hackett Publishing: Indianapolis/Cambridge 2004) 439-454

“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

The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Written Sources for Cypriote History (Annual Lecture 2004: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation 2005). Pp. 64.

Humanities Research Center UT Austin Poetry on the Plaza; “Bob Dylan American Homer” March 1, 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Mycenaean Religion,” in C.W. Shelmerdine, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (CUP 2008) 342- 355, 358-361

“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

“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

“Linear B,” in E. Cline ed., Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010) 356-372

“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

“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

“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.

“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

“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

“Pylos Tablet Vn 130 and the Pylos Perfume Industry,” in D. Nakassis et al. eds., Festschrift for Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

Articles by Tom Palaima and Will Bibee

“Linear A” in Emilio Crespo et al., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Brill)

“Scribes, Mycenaean” in Emilio Crespo et al., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Brill)

Articles by Joann Gulizio, Kevin Pluta, and Tom Palaima

“Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets,” in R. Hägg and R. Laffineur eds., Potnia (Aegeaum 22: Liège and Austin 2001) 453-461

Reviews by Tom Palaima

review of 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

[three reviews] 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; “Reviewing the New Linear B tablets from Thebes,” Kadmos 42 (2003) 31-38

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

review of 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

review of Stephen G. Miller, Ancient Greek Athletics (2004) and J. Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games 3rd ed. (2004) in History Today (September 2004) 56

(with Mark Southern) review of Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies (2005)

review of 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

review of Roger S. Bagnall, Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (2011)

review of Douglas L. Kriner and Francis X. Shen, The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities (2011)

Articles by Kevin Pluta

“A Reconstruction of the Archives Complex at Pylos: A Preliminary Report,” Minos 31-32, 1996-97 (1998), pp.231- 250.

“PY Ea series and Hand 43,” Proceedings of the 11th International Mycenological Colloquium. (forthcoming)

Articles by Joann Gulizio

“Hermes and e-ma-a2: The Continuity of his Cult from the Bronze Age to the Historical Period,” Živa Antika 50 (2000) 105-116.

“A-re in the Linear B Tablets and the Continuity of the Cult of Ares in the Historical Period,” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001) 32-38

Articles by Aren Wilson-Wright

“Interpreting the Sinaitic Inscriptions in Context: A New Reading of Sinai 345,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (2013), 136-148

“The Word for ‘One’ in Proto-Semitic,” Journal of Semitic Studies LIX/1 Spring 2014

Articles by Sarah James

“The Thebes Tablets and the Fq series: A Contextual Analysis,” Minos 37-38 (2002-2003 [2006]), pp. 397-418

Articles by Amanda Krauss

“i-je-ro and related terms,” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001) 39-50

Articles by Susan Lupack

“Deities and Religious Personnel as Collectors,” in Fiscality in Mycenaean and Near Eastern Archives, M. Perna, ed., Studi Egei e Vicinorientali vol. 3, Naples 2006, pp. 89-108

“The Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project (EBAP),” Teiresias: A Review and Bibliography of Boiotian Studies, Vol. 37 part 2 (2007) 25-27.

“The Northeast Building of Pylos and An 1281,” 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. 467-484

Articles by Dimitri Nakassis

W. Caraher, D. Nakassis and D.K. Pettegrew, “Intensive Survey,” in Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of An Ancient Coastal Town. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 21, ed. W. Caraher, R.S. Moore and D.K. Pettegrew (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research) 17-47.

review of Yannis A. Lolos, Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State. Hesperia Supplement 39. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. In Classical Journal Online 2012.11.06.

J. Gulizio and D. Nakassis, “The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion,” in KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, ed. D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. A. James (Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press) 115-128.

“Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King in Mycenaean Pylos,” Hesperia 81.1, 1–30.

“Structuration and the State in Mycenaean Greece,” in Agency in Ancient Writing, ed. J. Englehardt (Boulder: University Press of Colorado) 231–247.

“Labor Mobilization in Mycenaean Pylos,” in Étudies mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIIIe colloque international sur les textes égéens (Biblioteca di Pasiphae 10), ed. P. Carlier, C. De Lamberterie, M. Egetmeyer, N. Guilleux, F. Rougemont and J. Zurbach (Pisa-Rome: Fabrizio Serra) 269-283.

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty and W. Parkinson, “Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective,” American Journal of Archaeology 115.2, 177–184.

review of Walter Gauß, Michael Lindblom, R. Angus K. Smith, and James C. Wright, eds. Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011. In American Journal of Archaeology 117.2.

review of Eric H. Cline, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. In Mouseion 13, 153-155.

review of Richard Hope Simpson, Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos (Prehistory monographs 34). Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2014. In The Journal of Hellenic Studies 135, 261–262.

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty and W. Parkinson, “State and Society,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, ed. E. H. Cline (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 239–250.

“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

Articles by Dimitri Nakassis and Kevin Pluta

”Linear A and Multidimensional Scaling,” in Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 24, ed. K.P. Foster and R. Laffineur, (2003) 335-342.

Reviews by Dimitri Nakassis

review of John Heath, The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato (2007)

review of Duhoux and Morgpurgo Davies, A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 1 (2009)

Articles by Stephie Nikoloudis

“Animal Sacrifice in the Mycenaean World,” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001) 32-38

”The role of the ra-wa-ke-ta. Insights from PY Un 718,” Colloquium Romanum: Atti del XII colloquio internazionale di micenologia. Rome 2008, pp. 587-594

Articles by Peter van Alfen

”The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars as Links in an Administrative Chain,” Minos 31-32 (1996-1997 [1998]) 251-274

Articles by Vassilis Petrakis

“to-no-e-ke-te-ri-jo reconsidered,” Minos 37-38, 2002-2003, pp. 293-316

“E-ke-ra2-wo ≠ wa-na-ka: The Implications of a Probable Non-Identification for Pylian Feasting and Politics,” 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. 391-399, pl. LXXIII-LXXXIV

”Politics of the sea in the Late Bronze Age II-III Aegean: iconographic preferences and textual perspectives,” in G. Vavouranakis ed., The seascape in Aegean prehistory (Monographs of the Danish Institute in Athens 14: 2011) 185-234

”Localising Pylian Religion: Thoughts on the geographic References in the Fr Tablets Provoked by a New Quasi-Join,” Pasiphae 4 (2010) 199-215

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

“Phaistos Disk: A 100-Year-Old Hoax? Addenda, Corrigenda, and Comments,” Minerva (September/October): 15–16.

Biographical pieces on Tom Palaima

from Alcalde November/December 2005, pp. 42-49

from burntORANGE Spring 2008, pp. 15, 46

Brochure for the Linear B artwork of Nikos Samartzidis

“Die Linear B-Schrift und die Perlen der Ägäis, Ausstellung im Mainzer Rathaus 13. Oktober bis 17. November 2011”