It's All Greek To Me

This past weekend we hosted the British Epigraphy Society‘s annual Spring Meeting – as well as papers and posters about current research in the study of inscriptions (from Mesopotamian cuneiform to poetry in Byzantine graves, and plenty in between), we had

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 – Michael Ventris and John Chadwick’s Documents in Mycenaean Greek.

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 Latin, but in a closely-related language called Oscan.

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 tablets in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos would have chosen…

I was delighted to find out recently that I’d been shortlisted for my entry for the Classical Association’s 2023 competition.

It’s been a pretty busy time since I started a new job in Durham, hence the blog has been a bit quiet lately!

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 frontier of the Roman empire in Britain, whihc now runs across Cum…

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 the British School at Athens.

Last (for now!)

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 named – Mycenae (ancient Greek Μυκήναι, modern Greek Μυκήνες Mikines).