The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek (edited by John Killen) is the long-awaited update to the foundational work of the study of the Linear B tablets of Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) Greece – M…| It's All Greek To Me
Presenting the most recent addition to my now very long-running series of inscriptions in various ancient writing systems in cake form: a cake version of an inscription from Pompeii, written not in…| It's All Greek To Me
It’s been a pretty busy time since I started a new job in Durham, hence the blog has been a bit quiet lately! I’ve been teaching classical Greek and Latin language, and also a lecture c…| It's All Greek To Me
Last (for now!) in my series of virtual tours of Mycenaean sites, following Tiryns and Mycenae in the north-east Peloponnese, is this tour of Thebes in Boeotia, north-west of Athens (Myceanean te-q…| It's All Greek To Me
Following on from last year’s virtual tour of the Mycenaean site of Tiryns, now it’s the turn of the site after which the “Mycenaean” societies of Late Bronze Age Greece are…| It's All Greek To Me
Nearly two years ago, I was preparing to move to Athens to start a new research project ‘Writing at Pylos’ (acronym: WRAP), funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, at t…| It's All Greek To Me
I was delighted to find out recently that I’d been shortlisted for my entry for the Classical Association’s 2023 competition. This competition takes different forms every year: this yea…| It's All Greek To Me
Regular blog readers may remember that during my time at the British School at Athens, I was experimenting with different methods of making clay tablets, trying to find out why the makers of these …| It's All Greek To Me
One of the first things a classicist does after moving to Durham is, obviously, to pay a visit to Hadrian’s Wall: the wall begun by the Roman emperor Hadrian in 122 CE to mark the northern fr…| It's All Greek To Me
Everyone enjoys playing with clay, and now you can make and write your own Linear B tablet thanks to this video and worksheet based on my research into how these clay tablets were made in the Mycen…| It's All Greek To Me
