Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sheesh! And I thought I was goin' somewhere just reading the Oxford Edition of "Herodotus: The Histories"! O! Utter woe! Ad hoc, ad loc, quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know! Dan ( Alright, class- please turn to page 3456 and we'll continue the discussion of the Mesopotamian influence on early Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform when compared to later influences from the cultures west of Capadoecia; Scythian, and Median influences, notwithstanding....) Post :o( My head hurts!! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Even Worse Than Scotches: IE Linguistics > At 07:02 PM 4/3/2001 -0700, S Dimitrov wrote: > >Now that we've crossed a Rubicon of sorts, what do you make of linear B > >and Hittite? > > Gads. > > Linear B is simply early Classical Greek. Rather easy to read once the > spelling conventions (the script is a syllabary, after all) are understood. > The content, though, is as dull as a discussion of Leica R zoom lenses -- > inventory lists! > > Hittite is a greater problem, and it is "evolving doctrine" at the moment. > The literature is significant and can be read, but the meaning is often > elusive, as the Hittites, though Indo-Europeans, had lived in Anatolia long > enough to have picked up a lot of Middle Eastern culture, so words can have > slippery meanings. Still, the Hittite references to the Mycenaeans seem > clear enough, and that provides us a fascinating check on our > understandings of the failure of early Greek cultures. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >