John Chadwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 554106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Chadwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Chadwick |
| SIGNATURE | CHADWICK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Commonwealth Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2656-8211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Decipherment of Linear B
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Mycenaea…
The Semantic History of Greek ἐσχάρα
Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume 4 (8000-9947) and Index to Volumes 1-4
Lexicographica Graeca: Contributions to the Lexicography of Ancient Greek
H.G. Liddell and R. Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (revised and augmented by H.S. Jones in 1940) has been the essential tool of advanced Greek scholars for 150 years; in order to update it a new Supplement has been published (OUP 1996) replacing that of 1968. In this provocative reconsideration both of its lexicographical principles and of individual articles, John Chadwick examines the need for further revision and expansion of the volume through…
The Case for Replacing Liddell and Scott
Journal Article THE CASE FOR REPLACING LIDDELL AND SCOTT Get access JOHN CHADWICK JOHN CHADWICK Faculty of Classics, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, December 1994, Pages 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1994.tb00448.x Published: 12 March 2010
Linear B and Related Scripts
Les origines de la langue grecque
Chadwick John. Les origines de la langue grecque. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 129e année, N. 4, 1985. pp. 697-704
The commonwealth foundation 1966–80
Yaw Adu
YAW ADU Get access JOHN CHADWICK JOHN CHADWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 306, January 1978, Page 107, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096918 Published: 01 January 1978
The Mycenaean World
The commonwealth foundation‐1966–1976: A sibling of the child of change
Bookshelf
THREE ROADS TO AFRIKANERDOM The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid and the Afrikaner Civil Religion. By T. Dunbar Moodie. University of California Press. 1974. £6.25. The Puritans of Africa. By W. A. de Klerk. Rex Collings. 1975. £5. President Paul Kruger. By Johannes Meintjes. Cassell. 1975. £6.25. RUSSIA'S PRIVATE FACES The Soviet Union Since the Fall of Khrushchev. Ed. Archie Brown and Michael Kaser. Macmillan. 1975. £10. AUSTRALIAN BACKGR…
Homer and the Heroic Age
Introduction to the Problems of “Minoan Linear A”
Crete is a large off-shore island, and whether it belongs primarily to Europe or to Asia is a moot point—it is equidistant from the European and Asiatic mainlands of the Aegean. Inevitably it has served as an intermediate link in the transmission of influences in either direction. Hence I am pleased to see its indigenous script accorded a place in this Symposium, alongside many other famous problems
Britain and the Commonwealth
Essay| March 01 1974 Britain and the Commonwealth John Chadwick John Chadwick Director, the Commonwealth Foundation Appointed in 1938 to the British Colonial Office, John Chadwick ended his Whitehall career as Undersecretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He served as a diplomat in Canada and the Irish Republic and was attached to British delegations to the United Nations and NATO. Since 1966, he has been first director of the C…
The Geography of the Further Province of Pylos
The Linear Scripts and the Tablets as Historical Documents
The Knossos Tablets
Was Homer a Liar
une tradition à la fois antique et directe, ininterrompue, orale, deformée, méconnaissable et vivante.M. ProustThis is a deliberately provocative title, chosen in an iconoclastic moment, when I was annoyed by reading yet another book, in which the author prostrates himself abjectly before the altar of Homer the historian. The worship of this false god has reached such proportions that every writer on Mycenaean Greece devotes a great deal of space…
The Indus Script Deciphered
The Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies was founded as recently as 1967 with a governing body of distinguished scholars appointed by the four contributing countries. With this, its first publication, it has got off to a flying start. Ever since the first specimens of the Indus script were published nearly 40 years ago, it has constituted a standing challenge to scholars with a bent for cryptography. Several attempts have been made to decipher…
Newfoundland: Island into Province
The commonwealth foundation: Developing professional standards
Greekless Archaeology
In the 15 years since the decipherment of the so-called 'Linear B' script as Greek, I have often been asked what was the most important resulting gain in our knowledge of ancient Greece. I have always put first the final and conclusive proof that the Mycenaeans, the people who produced a brilliant civilization in Greece between the 16th and 12th centuries BC, were Greeks. Previously there had always been room for argument, and although most peopl…
Linear B tablets from Knossos
This article is a continuation of that published in BSA lvii. 46–74, and the same principles have been followed in editing the present series of fragments. The three sections deal with the tablets found during excavations at Knossos in 1961, two small fragments preserved in the British Museum but hitherto unrecorded, and a collection of pieces in Iraklion which had previously been overlooked or thought unworthy of publication. The new numbers ass…
Further Linear B tablets from Knossos
Excavations at Knossos by the British School under the direction of Mr. M. S. F. Hood have during the past few years added some new fragments to the collection of Linear B tablets. But the more notable accessions are of material which was excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in 1900–4, but which had been mislaid, lost, stolen, or even given away. It has become increasingly clear that Evans regarded the smaller fragments as of no importance; he kept no r…
Newfoundland: Island into Province
The Mycenae Tablets II
The Geography of the Further Province of Pylos
The Indus Script Deciphered
The Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies was founded as recently as 1967 with a governing body of distinguished scholars appointed by the four contributing countries. With this, its first publication, it has got off to a flying start. Ever since the first specimens of the Indus script were published nearly 40 years ago, it has constituted a standing challenge to scholars with a bent for cryptography. Several attempts have been made to decipher…
A Prehistoric Bureaucracy
Homer, the first and greatest of Greek poets, depicts a society which may be loosely described as feudal. Power is in the hands of kings, who are bound to each other by ties of marriage and traditional friendship. Their nobles are men of equally good blood and high repute; the common people appear to have no function but to serve their lords and masters. The operation of the government is but sketchily indicated. The kings and princes meet in cou…
Greek Records in the Minoan Script
It was in July 1952 that Mr Michael Ventris announced his solution of the fifty-year-old puzzle of the Minoan Linear B script. The announcement was at first received with proper scepticism, for many 'solutions' had already been published, none of which had proved convincing upon closer inspection. Most of them had been based upon quite inadequate collections of material, for it was not until the spring of 1952 that all the inscriptions in that sc…
Les origines de la langue grecque
Chadwick John. Les origines de la langue grecque. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 129e année, N. 4, 1985. pp. 697-704
The Mycenae Tablets III
John Chadwick, Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., Elizabeth B. French, Nicholas M. Verdelis, Charles K. Williams, William D. Taylour, The Mycenae Tablets III, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 52, No. 7 (1962), pp. 1-76
Minoan Linear A: A Provisional Balance Sheet
The decipherment in 1952 by Michael Ventris of the prehistoric script known as Minoan Linear B at once suggested that here lay the key to the earlier Cretan script called Linear A. Linear B was proved to be a syllabic script which represented, imperfectly but just adequately, the Greek language in a form more archaic than any other surviving records. At an early stage in our short-lived partnership I discussed with Ventris the possibility of appl…
Greek Records in the Minoan Script
It was in July 1952 that Mr Michael Ventris announced his solution of the fifty-year-old puzzle of the Minoan Linear B script. The announcement was at first received with proper scepticism, for many 'solutions' had already been published, none of which had proved convincing upon closer inspection. Most of them had been based upon quite inadequate collections of material, for it was not until the spring of 1952 that all the inscriptions in that sc…
The Knossos Horse and Foal Tablet (Ca895)
The Greek Dialects and Greek Pre-History
One of the disadvantages of specialization is that other scholars often wish to make use of, but cannot evaluate, work in other fields. Moreover, it usually takes some time for a new theory to spread beyond the confines of a narrow specialist circle. The purpose of the present article is to summarize in English, and comment on, a new theory of the relationships of the Greek dialects and the historical facts to be deduced from them. The theory is …
Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae, with Commentary and Vocabulary
New Fragments of Linear B Tablets From Knossos
In the course of his work at Knossos Sir Arthur Evans set aside a number of tablets, which remained there after the main collection had been removed to the Museum in Iraklion for safe keeping. Some of the fragments retained by Evans were rediscovered in the Villa Ariadne soon after the Second World War by Dr. N. Boufidis of the National Museum in Athens; drawings of them were sent by him to Sir John Myres, who published the texts for the first ti…
Minoica: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Johannes Sundwall
The Mycenaean Filing System
THE MYCENAEAN FILING SYSTEM John Chadwick John Chadwick Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, December 1958, Pages 1–5, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1958.tb00606.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Mycenae Tablets II
The Mycenae Tablets II
The Decipherment of Linear B
The Decipherment of Linear B
Minoan Linear A: A Provisional Balance Sheet
The decipherment in 1952 by Michael Ventris of the prehistoric script known as Minoan Linear B at once suggested that here lay the key to the earlier Cretan script called Linear A. Linear B was proved to be a syllabic script which represented, imperfectly but just adequately, the Greek language in a form more archaic than any other surviving records. At an early stage in our short-lived partnership I discussed with Ventris the possibility of appl…
A Prehistoric Bureaucracy
Homer, the first and greatest of Greek poets, depicts a society which may be loosely described as feudal. Power is in the hands of kings, who are bound to each other by ties of marriage and traditional friendship. Their nobles are men of equally good blood and high repute; the common people appear to have no function but to serve their lords and masters. The operation of the government is but sketchily indicated. The kings and princes meet in cou…
The Decipherment of Linear B
Further Linear B tablets from Knossos
Excavations at Knossos by the British School under the direction of Mr. M. S. F. Hood have during the past few years added some new fragments to the collection of Linear B tablets. But the more notable accessions are of material which was excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in 1900–4, but which had been mislaid, lost, stolen, or even given away. It has become increasingly clear that Evans regarded the smaller fragments as of no importance; he kept no r…
The Mycenae Tablets III
John Chadwick, Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., Elizabeth B. French, Nicholas M. Verdelis, Charles K. Williams, William D. Taylour, The Mycenae Tablets III, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 52, No. 7 (1962), pp. 1-76
Linear B tablets from Knossos
This article is a continuation of that published in BSA lvii. 46–74, and the same principles have been followed in editing the present series of fragments. The three sections deal with the tablets found during excavations at Knossos in 1961, two small fragments preserved in the British Museum but hitherto unrecorded, and a collection of pieces in Iraklion which had previously been overlooked or thought unworthy of publication. The new numbers ass…
The commonwealth foundation: Developing professional standards
Greekless Archaeology
In the 15 years since the decipherment of the so-called 'Linear B' script as Greek, I have often been asked what was the most important resulting gain in our knowledge of ancient Greece. I have always put first the final and conclusive proof that the Mycenaeans, the people who produced a brilliant civilization in Greece between the 16th and 12th centuries BC, were Greeks. Previously there had always been room for argument, and although most peopl…
Newfoundland: Island into Province
The Indus Script Deciphered
The Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies was founded as recently as 1967 with a governing body of distinguished scholars appointed by the four contributing countries. With this, its first publication, it has got off to a flying start. Ever since the first specimens of the Indus script were published nearly 40 years ago, it has constituted a standing challenge to scholars with a bent for cryptography. Several attempts have been made to decipher…
The Knossos Tablets
Was Homer a Liar
une tradition à la fois antique et directe, ininterrompue, orale, deformée, méconnaissable et vivante.M. ProustThis is a deliberately provocative title, chosen in an iconoclastic moment, when I was annoyed by reading yet another book, in which the author prostrates himself abjectly before the altar of Homer the historian. The worship of this false god has reached such proportions that every writer on Mycenaean Greece devotes a great deal of space…
The Geography of the Further Province of Pylos
The Linear Scripts and the Tablets as Historical Documents
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