Free AIA lecture Sunday March 25

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Sunday, March 25, 2007, 3:00pm
Dr. Cynthia Shelmerdine, Dept. of Classics, The University of Texas at
Austin
Unearthing the Mycenaeans
Location: Room G90, Sabin Hall, UW-Milwaukee

Mycenaean Greece has attracted scholars and laymen alike since the work of
Heinrich Schliemann in the late 19th century. Better excavation techniques
and the decipherment of Linear B, the Mycenaean script, as Greek brought
our understanding of this culture into focus during the 20th century.
Recently archaeological survey and new ways of reading the Linear B
tablets have allowed us to see beyond the Mycenaean elites, with their
palaces and monumental tombs, and to form a better picture of the full
range of Late Bronze Age society. This lecture covers the evolving study
of Mycenaean Greece, including the lecturer's current work on the Iklaina
Archaeological Project, directed by Michael Cosmopoulos of the Greek
Archaeological Society and the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

"History tells us that how much we want to believe a proposition is
not a reliable guide as to whether it is true." -- Steven Pinker