Vol. 16-17 B 2013 - 2014 Introduction a Journal for Greek letters Crisis, Criticism And Critique In Contemporary Greek Studies Editors Vrasidas Karalis and Panayota Nazou 1 Vol. 16-17 B 2013 - 2014 a Journal for Greek letters Crisis, Criticism And Critique In Contemporary Greek Studies Editors Vrasidas Karalis and Panayota Nazou The Modern Greek Studies Το περιοδικό φιλοξενεί άρθρα στα Αγγλικά και τα Ελληνικά Association of Australia and αναφερόμενα σε όλες τις απόψεις των Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών New Zealand (MGSAANZ) (στη γενικότητά τους). Υποψήφιοι συνεργάτες θα πρέπει να υποβάλλουν κατά προτίμηση τις μελέτες των σε δισκέτα και σε President - Anthony Dracopoulos έντυπη μορφή. Όλες οι συνεργασίες από πανεπιστημιακούς έχουν Vice President - Elizabeth Kefallinos υποβληθεί στην κριτική των εκδοτών και επιλέκτων πανεπιστημι- Treasurer - Panayota Nazou ακών συναδέλφων. Secretary - Panayiotis Diamadis The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Published for the Modern Greek Studies Association of Zealand (MGSAANZ) was founded in 1990 as a professional Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ) association by those in Australia and New Zealand engaged in Modern Greek Studies. Membership is open to all interested Department of Modern Greek, University of Sydney NSW in any area of Greek studies (history, literature, culture, tradi- 2006 Australia tion, economy, gender studies, sexualities, linguistics, cinema, T (02) 9351 7252 F (02) 9351 3543 Diaspora etc.). [email protected] The Association issues a Newsletter (Ενημέρωση), holds conferences and publishes two journals annually. ISSN 1039-2831 Editorial board Copyright Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney) Copyright in each contribution to this journal belongs to its Maria Herodotou (La Trobe University) author. 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This is a DEST recognised publication. The editors would like to express their gratitude to the Estate of the late Nicholas Anthony Aroney for its generous assistance Dedicated to the memory of Professor Manuel James Aroney AM, OBE 31st August 1932 - 15th February, 2011 Contents / Part B Part A - Addressing the Lemnos Heritage of Gallipoli and its forgotten foundations Cinema / p.105 John N. Yiannakis Theo Angelopoulos and the Cinema of Contemplation / p.11 Investigating the Death of a Legend / p.127 Andrew Horton Martyn Brown ‘Whose Is This Song?’ The invasion of Greece in 1941 and the Nazi Nationalism and Identity through the lens hordes that never were.... / p.147 of Adela Peeva / p.21 Craig Stockings and Eleni Elefterias-Kostakidis Eleanor Hancock From the archives of Oblivion: the first female Greek director Maria Plyta Re-imagining nationhood during the Second (1915-2006) / p.45 World War / p.165 Vrasidas Karalis Anna Efstathiadou Money, Sovereignty and the modern Greek History state / p.185 Peter Prineas ‘A brief and personal account’: the evidence of Charles Dobson on the destruction of the city of Smyrna in Migration September 1922 / p.69 Joanna Hyslop The first Greek-Australian Review: re-organisation in the Greek-Australian Κυθήριοι ομογενείς στην Αυστραλία communities of the post-mass migration era και στην Τασμανία. / p.201 Προσωπικές αφηγήσεις και Toula Nicolacopoulos and αναπαραστάσεις σε έναν George Vassilacopoulos παγκοσμιοποιημένο κόσμο (20ός-21ος αι.) Tales of glory boxes, suitcases and dreams: An Kytherian Emigrants in Australia and investigation of cultural and social changes in Tasmania: personal narratives and the dowry practices of Greek and Italian post- representations in a globalized world war migrants in South Australia / p.215 (20th-21st c.) / p.91 Maria Palaktsoglou, Daniela Cosmini-Rose, George N. Leontsinis Diana Glenn, Eric Bouvet Migration, Integration, Acculturation: Contemporary Greek Philosophy at the Greek-Australian women across Crossroads: generations / p.237 Neokantianism – Existentialism – Elizabeth Kefallinos Phenomenology / p.345 Golfo Maggini Greek, Australian, Greek-Australian or something else? Alexandros Papadiamantis: Alternative identities and communities in A Passionate Saint / p.369 John Charalambous’ Furies (2004) Nicolas Evzonas / p.253 Catalina Ribas-Segura Who is Kazantzakis’ God? / p.387 Nick N. Trakakis Greek Embroidery and the Making of Heritage / p.275 Επιθυμία, Έρωτας, Συναισθήματα: Cheryl Simpson Μια Φιλοσοφική Ανάγνωση του Κίτρινου Φακέλου του Μ. Καραγάτση Part B - Desire, Love, Emotions: A Philosophical Reading of M. Karagatsis’ Language Kitrinos Fakelos / p.419 Eleni Leontsini Commemorating the decipherment of Linear B and the discovery of Mycenaean Αυτοαντίληψη και αυτοπαρουσίαση: η Greek / p.295 Αυτοβιογραφία της Μελίνας Μερκούρη, Stavroula Nikoloudis Γεννήθηκα Ελληνίδα Self-perception and Self-presentation: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Melina Mercouri’s Autobiography I Was Greek / p.307 Born Greek / p.457 P. P. Koromvokis and Panayota Nazou I. Kalaitzidis C. P. Cavafy: Anthonism / p.485 Michael Tsianikas Culture Hume’s Lucianic Thanatotherapy /p.327 The Body of a Political Masochist: George Couvalis Torture, Performance and Power in Elias Maglinis’ The Interrogation / p.505 Tatjana Aleksic continues next page Contents (continued) Η Περιπέτεια του Αντρέα Κορδοπάτη και ο Ενδιάμεσος Χώρος του Θανάση Βαλτινού The Adventure of Andreas Kordopatis and the Interstitial Space of Thenanis Valtinos / p.525 Anthony Dracopoulos Parody and National Crisis: Thanasis Valtinos’ Three Greek One-Act Plays and its critical reception / p.545 Dimitris Paivanás Greece in Italy, or, A Great Silence Sections X-XVII Piero Bigongiari On the Sacred Way / p.563 Eugenio Montale Translated with introduction and notes by Theodore Ell Contributors / p.596 Introduction a Journal for Greek letters Vol. 16-17 B 2013 - 2014 Language Commemorating the decipherment of Linear B and the discovery of Mycenaean Greek / p.295 Stavroula Nikoloudis The acquisition of grammatical gender in Greek / p.307 P. P. Koromvokis and I. Kalaitzidis 2 9 3 Language St Cecilia 2Κωνσταντίνος 9 4 Παρθένης, 1938 Language Stavroula Nikoloudis The University of Melbourne Commemorating the decipherment of Linear B and the discovery of Mycenaean Greek Abstract Linear B is the writing system used by the Mycenaean Greeks dur- ing the Late Bronze Age, roughly between 1450 – 1200 BCE. Clay tablets inscribed in the Linear B script had been unearthed at the excavations of Knossos, Crete, in the early 1900s and subsequently at Pylos and Mycenae on the mainland of Greece,1 but they had remained largely unreadable for decades, until a British architect by the name of Michael Ventris, who had always had a keen interest in languages, announced on a BBC radio pro- gramme, that was aired on 1st July 1952, that he had deciphered Linear B and that it represented the earliest surviving form of the Greek language.2 This was a major breakthrough, complementing the archaeological inves- tigations of the time by giving scholars access to the textual information recorded in the Linear B tablets about the socio-political, economic and religious facets of life in the Mycenaean world. This paper commemorates the 60th anniversary of this important achievement in two ways: first, it outlines the unique contributions of the four main pioneers involved in the decipherment (Michael Ventris, Alice E. Kober, Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. and John Chadwick); second, it focuses on a small section of Linear B tablet PY Ep 704 in order to illustrate the detailed information contained in these texts and to consider the diachronic development of the Greek language by pointing to several key similarities and differences between Mycenaean and Modern Greek. 2 9 5 Language The decipherment revealed that the Linear B tablets were economic documents. They include landholding and taxation information, they indi- cate what was coming into the central administrative centres, usually called ‘palaces,’ in the form of raw materials and what was going out as finished products or as material to be worked into finished products. They include lots of inventories of items such as vessels, chariot equipment, animals,