{"id":1476,"date":"2021-05-26T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarpidon-academy.eu\/?post_type=ignition-portfolio&p=1476"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:48:11","slug":"michael-ventris-kai-john-chadwick-oi-pateres-tis-grammikis-v-gr","status":"publish","type":"ignition-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sarpidon-academy.eu\/en\/ignition-portfolio\/michael-ventris-kai-john-chadwick-oi-pateres-tis-grammikis-v-gr\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ventris \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 John Chadwick, THE FATHERS OF LINEAR B SCRIPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The  fathers   of  Linear   B  Script  are   Michael  Ventris   <\/strong>and  the  Academic  John  Chadwick.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael  Ventris   <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An  Englishman, amateur  linguist,  working  as  an  architect  and  speaking  a  lot  of  languages.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He  was  born  on  12  July  1922  and  died  on  6  September   1956.<\/span><\/p>\n

He  was  the  son  of  an  Officer  of  the  British  Army. He  grew  up  living  in   Swiss  Schools,  during  his  early  school  years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart  from his  mother  tongue,  English,  he  spoke  Swiss, French,  German, Polish, Swedish, Latin  and  Ancient  Greek.<\/span><\/p>\n

When  he  was  14  years  old, he  visited  an  exhibition  about  the  Minoan  Culture<\/strong>  and  he  was  guided  there by  Arthur  Evans<\/strong>. This  was  a  point  in  time  when  he  started  being  interested  in  Linear  B  Script,  because  he  believed  that  it  had  a  relationship with  the  Etruscan<\/strong>  language.<\/span><\/p>\n

In  1951,  he  retired  from  Architecture  and  he  dealt  with  the  decoding  of  Linear  B<\/strong>. He  stopped  dealing  with    Etruscan<\/strong>  and  he  examined  a  new  possibility,  that  of  Greek<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

At  that  time,  findings  of  this  Script  came  to  light  in  Pylos  of  Messinia<\/strong>. He  managed  to  clarify  the  phonetics  of  some  symbols  and  he  realized  that  Linear  B   is  Greek  Discourse.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

His   collaboration  with  John  Chadwick  <\/strong>completed  the  result,  according  to  elements  that  prove  the  correctness   of  the  deciphering. Their  studies  became  known  and  they  created  a  new  research  field,  with  a  lot  of  interests  about  the  Minoan  and  Mycenaean  Culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

In  1954  he  participated  in  an  excavating  group    working  on  Chios.  He  easily  translated  the  inscriptions  of  the  findings.<\/span><\/p>\n

In  collaboration  with  Chadwick ,  <\/strong>they  wrote  a  book  <\/strong>titled  Documents  in  Mycenaean  Greek<\/em>. <\/strong>It  is  the  first  complete  study  about  Linear  B  Script.<\/span><\/p>\n

As  an  acclaimed  researcher,  he  accepted  invitations  to  enter  the  Academic  Community  as  a  Professor, but,  unfortunately, in  1956  he  had  a  car  accident  where  he  lost  his  life.<\/span><\/p>\n

His  projects  and  the  table  of  the  67<\/strong>  phonetic  values  he  created,  guide  the  studies  and  efforts  to  decode  the  Ancient  texts   around  the  world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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John  Chadwick  <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

English  Academic,  Professor  of  Classical  Literature.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He  was  born  in  London   on  21   May  1920  and  he  died  on  24  November   1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

He  studied  Classical  Literature  at  the  University  of  Cambridge,  and  after  the  Second  World  War,  he  worked  at  the  University  of  Oxford.<\/span><\/p>\n

He  belonged  to  a  scientific    group   of  Oxford,  for  the  publication  of   a Dictionary  of  Classical  Literature.<\/span><\/p>\n

As  he  had  a  mastery  of  Ancient  Greek,  he  collaborated  with  Michael  Ventris.<\/span><\/p>\n

The  result  of  this  collaboration  was  the  complete  understanding   and  decoding  of  the  Ancient  texts. <\/span><\/p>\n

In  1956,  in  collaboration  with  Ventris,  their  book  Documents  in  Mycenaean  Greek  <\/em><\/strong>was   published.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In  1958    he  wrote  the  book  titled   The  Deciphering  of  Linear  B  Script<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In  1976  he   published  The<\/em><\/strong>   Mycenaean  World.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He  was  declared   \u0397onorary  Professor  of  the  School  of  Philosophy  of  the  University  of  Athens  for  his  contribution  to  the  reading  of  the  Ancient  texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

He  retired  in  1984, but  until  his  death  he  kept  on  collaborating  with  the  Academic  Community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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