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WRIGHT,JamesC.
Bibliography
Empty Cups and Empty Jugs: The Social Role of Wine in Minoan and Mycenaean Socities
The Origins and Ancient History of Wine. Food and Nutrition in History 11, edd., McGovern,
Heming, and Katz, pp. 287-:.ll9. Philadelphia: Gcrdon and Breach Publishers, 1995
JWt uses iconographic and artifactual evidence to support the suggestion that wine had important social and religious uses among
Minoan and Mycenaean elites.
JWt505 WRIGHT,JamesC.
From Cllief to King in Mycenaean Society
Role of the Ruler, !995, pp. 63-!0 (PRe .500)
JWt discusses the evolution of Mycenaean kingship drawing on a variety of models for the rise of complex societies, including
secondary state formation, the chiefdom and prestige exchange mechanisms.
WWy.SOO WYATT, WilliamF.
Homeric /w/ + Vo'M!ls in Contact
Glotta 72 (1994), pp. 119-150
WWy readdresses the question of the digamma in Homer.
WWy.SOI WYATT, WilliamF.
Homeric and Mycenaean l.aos­
Minos 29-:D (1994-95), pp. 159-170
WWy argues that /.a6), as attested in the Iliad, originally denoted a troq> of followers under a leader, thereby concluding that
the role of the Mycenaean ra-wa-ke-ta was to assemble the contingents of the Mycenaean army.
WWy502 WYATT,WilliamF.
Rev: Sihler, A New Comparative GramnUlr of Greek and Latin, 1995 (AwS .500)
Minos 29-D (1994-95), pp. 389-392
WWypraises this book as highlyservicable, stimulating and, above aU, reliable. While there are major additions to Buck's
Comparative GramnUlr of Greek and Latin (1933) on the topics of Hittite, Mycenaean Greek, and Laryngeal Theory, WWy
notes that Mycenologists will have to tum elsewhere for more detailed treatments of Mycenaean philology.
AgS.SOO XENAKI-SAKEILARIOU, Agnes
Les rogues-cachets creto-myceniennes: art et fonction
Sceaux Minoens et Myciniens, 1995, pp. 3!:>-329 (IPi/JCP .500)
A technical analysis of Minoan-Mycenaean seal-rings enables AgS to correct a number of her previous conclusions and to discuss,
in moo: detail, the possible function of these items.
NY.SOO YAMAGATA, Naoko
The Gods in Homer and in Linear B
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (8/CS) 40 (1995), pp. 246-247
Judging from the sacrifices accorded to the divinities, NY proposes that the gods in the Linear B documents are treated much like
the dead in Homer, and that the chthonic characteristics shown by both sets of gods suggest a link worthy of exploration.
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