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By Barry B. Powell

The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris

Andrew Robinson
(New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002) 168 pp., $19.95

There is no West without Homer. So perhaps it is not surprising that the two most important 20th-century contributions to the study of classics—made by the American scholar Milman Parry (1902–1935) and the British architect Michael Ventris (1922–1956)—were also important contributions to our understanding of Homer.

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