John Chadwick

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John Chadwick

British linguist

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Michael Ventris
…thereafter by the Cambridge linguist John Chadwick, they assembled dramatic evidence supporting Ventris’ theory. In 1953 they published their historic paper, “Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives.” Their Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956; rev. ed., 1973) was published a few weeks after Ventris’ death in an auto accident,…
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…thereafter by the Cambridge linguist John Chadwick, they assembled dramatic evidence supporting Ventris’ theory. In 1953 they published their historic paper, “Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives.” Their Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956; rev. ed., 1973) was published a few weeks after Ventris’ death in an auto accident,…
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