A background in the theater and classical Greek tragedy inspired Birgit Brandau (“Can Archaeology Discover Homer’s Troy”) to delve into the mysteries of ancient history. A freelance science writer living in Stuttgart, Germany, Brandau has covered the recent excavations at Troy since 1992. Her book Troy. City and Myth: The New Story was published in Germany in 1997.
Carol G. Thomas (“Searching for the Historical Homer”) is professor of history at the University of Washington. Her books on ancient Greece include Paths from Ancient Greece (Brill, 1988).
Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford University, Jasper Griffin (“Reading Homer after 2,800 years”) writes frequently about Homer. Among his books on Greek and Latin literature is Homer on Life and Death (Oxford, 1982).
Barry B. Powell (“Who Invented the Alphabet: The Semites or the Greeks?”) was trained as a specialist in Homer. But it was his interest in Egyptology that encouraged him to investigate the connection between the Homeric poems and the invention of the alphabet. “One day it struck me,” he says, “that when you say ’writing’ and mean hierogylyphics, and when you say ’writing’ and mean the Greek alphabet, you mean essentially different things.” Powell, the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 1991).
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. (“Who Invented the Alphabet? A Different View”) is the William Foxwell Albright Professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. An epigrapher and biblical scholar, McCarter has most recently published Ancient Inscriptions: Voices from the Biblical World (Biblical Archaeology Society, 1996).
Director of the Ain Ghazal Research Institue in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, Gary O. Rollefson (“Invoking the Spirit”) has spent nearly 20 years excavating in various parts of Jordan. He is the editor of The Prehistory of Jordan II: Perspectives from 1996.
A background in the theater and classical Greek tragedy inspired Birgit Brandau (“Can Archaeology Discover Homer’s Troy”) to delve into the mysteries of ancient history. A freelance science writer living in Stuttgart, Germany, Brandau has covered the recent excavations at Troy since 1992. Her book Troy. City and Myth: The New Story was published in Germany in 1997. Carol G. Thomas (“Searching for the Historical Homer”) is professor of history at the University of Washington. Her books on ancient Greece include Paths from Ancient Greece (Brill, 1988). Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford University, Jasper Griffin […]
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