Thomas G. Palaima

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Thomas G. Palaima (born October 6, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio ) is an American classical philologist and mycenologist .

Life

After studying mathematics and classical studies at Boston College , which he graduated with a BA in 1973, Palaima received his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Classical Philology . From 1985 to 1990 he held a MacArthur Fellowship to study the Aegean writing systems . He is now the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and founding director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Texas at Austin .

Palaima works in particular on palaeography , writing systems and the use of Linear B tablets in research into early Greek history.

In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University .

Palaima has published on many other topics as well, in the form of book reviews, violence and war, especially music and Bob Dylan and university sports.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Written Sources for Cypriote History. (Annual Lecture 2004). The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation 2005.
  • with E. Pope and F. Kent Reilly: Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Scheele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing. Catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, March 9 – August 1, 2000. Austin 2000.
  • The Scribes of Pylos. ( Incunabula Graeca 87). Rome 1988.
Editorships
  • Ed .: Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administrations. (Proceedings of the NEH-Dickson Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory of the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin January 11-13, 1989; = Aegaeum, 5). Liège 1990.
  • Ed., With Cynthia W. Shelmerdine , Petar Hr. Ilievski : Studia Mycenaea (1988). ( Ziva Antika Monographies No. 7) Skopje 1989.
  • Ed., With Yves Duhoux and John Bennet : Problems in Decipherment. ( Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 49). Louvain-la-Neuve 1989.
  • Ed., With Jean-Pierre Olivier : Texts, Tablets and Scribes: Studies in Mycenaean Epigraphy and Economy in Honor of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( Minos Supplement 10). Salamanca 1988.
  • Ed., With Cynthia W. Shelmerdine : Pylos Comes Alive: Industry and Administration in a Mycenaean Palace. ( Papers of a Symposium of the Archaeological Institute of America and Fordham University ). New York, 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PASP Latest News ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Editorials and comments ( Memento of January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Articles and Reviews of Palaima
  4. ^ The First Casualty, in: Times Higher Education, December 20/27, 2012 [1] and Take 5 Lecture on War ( Memento of July 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Dylanology and Music ( Memento of 4 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), University of Texas at Austin.
  6. ↑ Combat Trauma and the Ancient Stage (Video)
  7. ↑ Debating the Cultural Evolution of War ( video on YouTube )
personal data
SURNAME Palaima, Thomas G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist and mycenaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland, Ohio