McClanahan Lecture Series

Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code:
Linear B and its Decipherment
Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, Â鶹ӰԺ

Thursday, April 15th, 2021  |  7:00 p.m.  |  Virtual Webinar

Michael Ventris and the Pylos Tablet An 35

The decipherment of Linear B in 1952 by Michael Ventris is one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, for Ventris cracked this Late Bronze Age code without the Aegean equivalent of the Rosetta Stone. The demonstration that Linear B was used to write Greek ca. 1400-1200 BCE, half a millennium before Homer, inaugurated a new chapter in the history of the Greek language and revolutionized the study of Late Bronze Age Greece. This lecture will review how the decipherment happened and what insights Linear B continues to provide to scholars of early Greece, almost 70 years after Ventris’ magnificent discovery. 

This lecture is free and will be hosted on Zoom.
This lecture is sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan.  CU Classics is grateful for her generous support.

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AIA Lecture Series

Digitizing Prehistory: Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century

Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, Â鶹ӰԺ

Wednesday, October 30th I 7 p.m. I Paleontology Hall

Free and open to the public

Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Â鶹ӰԺ, CO  80309

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Forgotten cities hidden in plain sight: archaeology and ancient landscapes in Greece

presented by Professor Dimitri Nakassis

Archaeology is usually associated with excavation, a process that brings the past into the present by peeling away layers, revealing ancient surfaces and structures along with their associated artifacts. In places like Rome and Athens, there is a city beneath the city: ancient monuments of stone underneath the modern concrete jungle. But there is also an archaeology hidden in plain sight, a way of exploring the past while walking across the terrain of the present day. This archaeology reveals entire forgotten cities, towns, and villages, and inquires into the countryside that surrounded them. This lecture will illustrate how this kind of archaeology helps us to understand the Greek world and one part of it in particular: the western Argolid. For the past three years, CU faculty and students explored this region as members of the Western Argolid Regional Project. This program of archaeological research has made many new discoveries and revealed a complex history of occupation over the past five millennia.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 7:00 PM in HUMN 1B50

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the Department of Classics

1610 Pleasant St. Eaton Humanities  www.colorado.edu/classics  303-492-6257

Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building.

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Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee

Dimitri Nakassis, Associate Professor of Classics, has been elected to the Information Technology Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2016-2021 term.  Congratulations Dimitri! 

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