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	Michael Ventris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Ventris was educated in Switzerland and at Stowe School, housed in a magnificent 18th century country house.
		Ventris' initial theory was that Etruscan and 'Minoan' were related and that this might provide a key to decipherment and although this proved incorrect, it was a link he continued to explore until the early 1950s.
		Using this clue, Michael Ventris constructed a series of grids associating the symbols on the tablets with consonants and vowels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Ventris (634 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - A Very English Genius
		On 1 July 1952, a 30-year-old architect called Michael Ventris made a BBC radio broadcast which was to secure his place in archaeological and history books forever.
		Interviews with friends and contemporaries reveal Ventris to be an eternal outsider and an unconventional thinker, and suggests that it was precisely his exclusion from British public school cliques and academic communities which afforded him the freedom to take intellectual risks.
		Finally, the programme looks into Ventris' often fraught emotional life and endeavours to solve the mystery of his tragic and untimely death in a car accident at the age of 34.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/linear-b.shtml (301 words)

	Encyclopedia: Michael Ventris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael George Francis Ventris (July 12, 1922–September 6, 1956) was an English architect and classical scholar, who along with John Chadwick was responsible for the decipherment of Linear B.
		John Chadwick (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was a British linguist and classical scholar most famous for his role in deciphering Linear B along with Michael Ventris.
		After Ventris' death Chadwick became the sole figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible popular book The Decipherment of Linear B in 1958 and revising Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1978.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Ventris (746 words)

	Station X
		With Michael Apted's almost wilfully leaden direction, it's perhaps unfair to blame Scott entirely for his unprepossessing performance; the actor appears unsure whether he is playing a romantic lead or an action hero, quickly resorting to a wearisome hangdog petulance.
		Ventris was, however, an exceptionally gifted linguist, with the ability which some people have to pick up languages, apparently without trying: he arrived in Sweden for a holiday, for instance, and within a week was able to hold extensive conversations in Swedish.
		Ventris himself seems to have known that nothing particularly interesting would emerge from decoding linear B: he lost interest in the script almost from the moment that he had solved the problem of how to read it.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/stationx.html (2625 words)

	Michael
		Michael, the name of one of the archangels, was generally considered as too holy a name to give to children until the 12th century.
		Emperor Michael I Rhangabe of Byzantine (?- circa 843)
		Emperor Michael VII Ducas (Parapinaces) of Byzantine (1059-1078)
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/m/michael.html (389 words)

	File: <linerb
		Michael Ventris, a young English architect announced in 1952 that he had succeeded in deciphering Linear-B and had proven that this old writing was archaic Greek.
		By agglutinating the phonetic values he had obtained, Ventris was able to show that the language used was an early form of Greek.
		To the mistress of the Labyrinth (?), one amphora of honey.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/bronze/linerb.htm (1938 words)

	AllRefer.com - Michael George Francis Ventris (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Michael George Francis Ventris, Language And Linguistics, Biographies
		Ventris was a student of architecture, but he became interested in the untranslated Mycenaean scripts, particularly Linear B, which was found at Knossos, Pylos, and other sites.
		Ventris died at 34 as the result of an automobile accident.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Ventris.html (215 words)

	The Decipherment of Linear B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1952 Michael Ventris first advanced his claim that he had found the key to the understanding of Linear B. For many years decipherment had been impeded by the belief, apparently soundly based, that the language used by the writers of Linear B could not possibly be Greek.
		Ventris' achievement is all the more impressive since it involved following a line diametrically opposed to received academic opinion.
		He himself had earlier been convinced that the language must be Etruscan, and his proof that it was Greek was violently disputed, even in the face of almost complete decipherment.
	www.savoyardbooks.com /05213983.htm (256 words)

	Faculty of Classics: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chadwick was the first scholar to accept the decipherment as correct and in his first letter to Ventris made some further suggestions confirming it (Chadwick was the first person to read the word ‘Pylos’ in Linear B for over 3000 years).
		Ventris and Chadwick worked closely together for the next four years, until Ventris’s tragic early death in 1956, within weeks of the publication of their monumental joint work, Documents in Mycenaean Greek.
		There are biographies of Ventris and Chadwick, a synopsis of the decipherment, and an account of their correspondence, illustrated with letters from the Cambridge archives.
	www.classics.cam.ac.uk /everyone/linearb/decipherment.html (253 words)

	Mycenaean language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language is named after Mycenae, the first of the palaces to be excavated.
		The tablets remained long undeciphered, and every conceivable language was suggested for them, until Michael Ventris deciphered the script in 1952 and uncontestably proved the language to be an early form of Greek.
		Ventris, Michael, "Evidence for Greek dialect in the Mycenaean archives", in Journal of Hellenic Studies, LXXVII (1953), pp 84ff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mycenaean_language (489 words)

	Downing College Library exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the same year he heard a radio broadcast by a 29 year old architect and amateur linguist of genius, Michael Ventris, making the controversial suggestion that the Linear B script, found on 3000 year old clay tablets from Knossos and Pylos, could be deciphered as Greek.
		It was Ventris, as 'the incorrigibly modest' Chadwick always stressed, who made the key breakthroughs in the decipherment, but his own role was a vital one, applying the decipherment to all the texts, unaided by computers.
		Ventris and Chadwick produced their first serious article in 1953 and then a massive account of their work in Documents in Mycenaean Greek.
	www.dow.cam.ac.uk /www_server/library/ExhibitionMar01/Chadwick.html (518 words)

	John Chadwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in London and educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, serving as an officer the Royal Navy's Special Branch during the Second World War.
		That same year he began working with Ventris on the progressive decipherment of Linear B, the two writing Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1956 following a controversial first paper three years earlier.
		Chadwick's philological skills were applied to Ventris' initial theory that Linear B was an early form of Greek rather than another Mediterranean language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Chadwick (276 words)

	The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To everyone's amazement, and even to Michael Ventris himself, who had for a long time contended that the hidden language was Etruscan, a Greek ancient dialect was there all the time, masquaraded by a somewhat similar Cypriot sillabary.
		Andrew Robinson tells the fascinating story of Michael Ventris, the architect/amateur linguist who 'cracked' the code of Linear B and proved to the world that it contained an ancient form of Greek.
		Michael Ventris, the man at the heart of this book, was a rather shy, somewhat diffident man who had trained as an architect and married young.
	www.textkit.com /0_0500510776.html (1120 words)

	SAS>Institute of Classical Studies
		The Trustees of the Michael Ventris Memorial Fund offer an annual award of up to £2,000 to postgraduate students or young scholars who have obtained a doctorate within the past five years in the field of Mycenaean civilization or kindred subjects.
		The Fund was founded in 1957 in memory of Michael Ventris, in appreciation of his work in the fields of Mycenaean civilization and architecture.
		The successful Michael Ventris candidate will be required to submit a written report to the Advisory Committee on the work that the Award has enabled him or her to complete.
	www.sas.ac.uk /icls/institute/awards/michael_ventris.html (1767 words)

	Amazon.com: The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris: Books: Andrew Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Ventris was a brilliant linguist who solved a top-notch archeological puzzle.
		Ventris became intrigued by the decipherment as a schoolboy, even furtively studying the language by flashlight under his bedsheets at school.
		Ventris solved what is probably the greatest challenge in deciphering any ancient language, and though the achievement was magnificent, the fruits were meager: there is no literature in the language, no epic poetry, no sparkling civilization.
	amazon.com /o/asin/0500510776 (1699 words)

	Michael Ventris -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The decipherment of the latest and most copiously attested of the Minoan linear scripts, the so-called Linear B, by British cryptologist Michael Ventris in 1953, is a major example of the dramatic impact epigraphic discovery can have on the most varied antiquarian disciplines.
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	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9381890 (848 words)

	The Man Who Deciphered Linear B
		The decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris some fifty years ago is the equivalent in the humanities of Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA.
		Michael Ventris's later collaborator, the Cambridge classicist John Chadwick, told the story in his famous book, The Decipherment of Linear B (1958).
		His research reveals a most intriguing person: a dazzling polyglot with an unorthodox upbringing and socialist tendencies who was also extremely private and lacking in confidence, and who died in a mysterious car crash in 1956 at the age of thirty-four.
	www.wwnorton.com /thamesandhudson/new/SPRING02/551077.htm (403 words)

	Manitoba Association of Architects \| News
		The Trustees of the Michael Ventris Memorial Fund offer an annual award of up to 2000 to architects or post-graduate students of not less that RIBA Intermediate status or candidates comparable level of achievement.
		He had been both an architect, with a promising career ahead of him, and a brilliant liguist who, after many years of painstaking study and research, introduced a new dimension to classical scholarship with the discovery, in 1953, of the key to deciphering of the Minoan Linear B Script.
		Michael Ventris studied architecture at the AA, interrupted by war service as a navigator for the RAF, and was one of the School s most distinguished students.
	www.mbarchitects.org /web/news-archive-display.shtml?pfl=news-display.param&op2.rf1=82 (551 words)

	House Of Leaves :: View topic - Michael Ventris? Linear B? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ventris was a slave to cracking the code of Linear B his entire life, even at the expense of losing contact with a wife and children (Karen, Daisy, Chad?).
		It would be interesting to know if Danielewski knew of Ventris’ quest, and the similarities between his fate and that of the characters of his book.
		As a rebuke to any ensuing rebukes, it would be worth highlighting that Ventris took his own life shortly after deciphering Linear B: A cautionary tale on the nature of obsession if there ever was one.
	www.houseofleaves.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=3889 (798 words)

	Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit
		Michael Ventris could eventually decipher Linear B because he could recognize that it was an archaic form of Greek.
		One of the truths of archaeological decipherment is that it attracts both geniuses and cranks; and it is not always easy to tell the two apart.
		Ventris was a genius--but the fact remains that he never attended a university and certainly never studied Greek professionally.
	www.archaeology.org /0303/etc/conversations.html (698 words)

	Architectural Association Library: AA Travel / Memorial Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Trustees of the Michael Ventris Memorial Fund offer an annual award of up to £2,000 to architects or postgraduate students of at least Intermediate status or equivalent.
		The fund was established in 1957 in memory of Michael Ventris, a brilliant linguist and promising architect, who died in 1956, aged 34, in appreciation of his work promoting the study of Mycenae and architecture.
		Ventris’s research led to the discovery, in 1953, of the key to deciphering Minoan Linear B Script and so to greater understanding of ancient Greece and Mycenaean civilisation.
	www.aaschool.ac.uk /library/aaTravel.shtm (535 words)

	Michael Ventris & Genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Chapter 1 of The Decipherment of Linear B John Chadwick describes the character of Michael Ventris, the man who in 1952 figured out the meaning of the inscriptions on ancient clay tablets found in Crete and a few other locations --- writings which had baffled archaeologists since their discovery in 1900.
		The architect's eye sees in a building not a mere facade, a jumble of ornamental and structural features; it looks beneath the appearance and distinguishes the significant parts of the pattern, the structural elements and framework of the building.
		So too Ventris was able to discern among the bewildering variety of the mysterious signs, patterns and regularities which betrayed the underlying structure.
	www.his.com /~z/ventris.html (343 words)

	No. 1134: Linear B
		Then, in 1936, a schoolboy named Michael Ventris went to an exhibit of Minoan artifacts that Evans had mounted in London.
		Spurred by that lead, Ventris went at the language with the systematic apparatus of a mathematical code breaker.
		The structure of DNA was explained, Mount Everest was climbed -- and Ventris broke the code.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1134.htm (541 words)

	The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris, Thames & Hudson, Andrew Robinson
		Andrew Robinson tells the fascinating story of Michael Ventris, the architect/amateur linguist who 'cracked' the code of Linear B and proved to the world that it contained an ancient form of Greek.The story unfolds with the same drama as a murder mystery or detective story.
		It is, to the contrary, an utterly fascinating mystery and linguistic puzzle which Robinson lays out methodically for his readers--even those who had little previous interest in linguistic puzzles.Michael Ventris, the man at the heart of this book, was a rather shy, somewhat diffident man who had trained as an architect and married young.
		There is even the occasional spot of humor--as when Ventris was stopped by a suspicious Customs agent who said, "These Pylos Tablets--exactly what ailment is it that they're supposed to relieve?"I learned a great deal from this book.
	www.sharisgarden.net /mystores/item_0500510776.html (1121 words)

	Ace's Hardware - General Message Board
		Michael Ventris, a british architect was able to figure out Linear B tablets by the age of thirty years of age.
		It is said the Michael Ventris was terribly good at solving problems because of the ingenious way he could define them - compartmentalisation - meaning his brain could simultaneously accept two contradictory truths about the same problem, because of isolating them into different compartments of his brain.
		Unfortunately for poor old Ventris, this effort of decypering the Linear B ancient primitive Greek symbolic language proved too big a task for him.
	www.aceshardware.com /forums/read_post.jsp?id=95037028&forumid=1 (542 words)

	About CIPEM
		These individuals represented an expansion of the ‘working group’ of scholars whom Michael Ventris had drawn together during the period 1947-1953 when work towards decipherment of the Minoan and Mycenaean linear scripts was most intensive.
		The ‘commission permanente’ established at Gif, with John Chadwick replacing Michael Ventris, was charged with organizing the next conference.
		It was also directed to establish a permanent international association for Mycenaean Studies that would "lend appropriate advice and support to assure the continuation of periodicals devoted to Mycenaean studies," and to prepare a small brochure of the ‘Wingspread Convention’ signary and of other information about centers of research for Mycenaean studies and bibliographical collections.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/classics/PASP/cipem/about.html (942 words)

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