{"id":1823,"date":"2013-12-03T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2019-02-11T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T06:06:19","slug":"the-city-of-knossos-haiga-richard-vallance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-city-of-knossos-haiga-richard-vallance\/","title":{"rendered":"The City of Knossos. Haiga. Richard Vallance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/haiga-Knossos-burnt-to-the-ground.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1824\" alt=\"haiga Knossos burnt to the ground\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/haiga-Knossos-burnt-to-the-ground-184x300.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/haiga-Knossos-burnt-to-the-ground-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/haiga-Knossos-burnt-to-the-ground-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/haiga-Knossos-burnt-to-the-ground-400x650.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/haiga-Knossos-burnt-to-the-ground.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press to Enlarge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377549291581_3525\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377549291581_3527\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377549291581_3526\" style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Linear B, the very earliest Greek script, was used by the Mycenaeans and Minoans from ca. 1450 &#8211; 120 BCE for administrative, financial and accounting purposes only, at least so far as we know. No literature as such has survived on the some 6,800 Linear B tablets and fragments.\u00a0 So Richard&#8217;s haiku is in effect the very first poem (or literature for that matter) written in Linear B in 3,500 years.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>BIO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Richard-Vallanc-Santorini-Grreece-May-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1050\" alt=\"Richard Vallanc Santorini Grreece May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Richard-Vallanc-Santorini-Grreece-May-2012-252x300.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Richard-Vallanc-Santorini-Grreece-May-2012-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Richard-Vallanc-Santorini-Grreece-May-2012-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Richard-Vallanc-Santorini-Grreece-May-2012-400x475.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Richard-Vallanc-Santorini-Grreece-May-2012.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Richard Vallance, meta-linguist, ancient Greek &amp; Mycenaean Linear B, home page: Linear B, Knossos &amp; Mycenae,<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linearbknossosmycenae.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/linearbknossosmycenae.wordpress.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">PINTEREST Boards: Mycenaean Linear B: Progressive Grammar &amp; Vocabulary,<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/vallance22\/mycenaean-linear-b-progressive-grammar-and-vocabul\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/pinterest.com\/vallance22\/mycenaean-linear-b-progressive-grammar-and-vocabul\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> <strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">and, Knossos &amp; Mycenae, sister civilizations, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/vallance22\/knossos-mycenae-sister-civilizations\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/pinterest.com\/vallance22\/knossos-mycenae-sister-civilizations\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Also poetry publisher, The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Friesen Press, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 August 2013. 35 illustrations in B&amp;W. Author &amp; Title Indexes. 257 pp. 315 sonnets &amp; ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese &amp; Persian.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"mailto:editor@artvilla.com\">editor@artvilla.com\r\n<\/a><a href=\"mailto:robin@artvilla.com\">robin@artvilla.com<\/a><\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Artvilla.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/Artvilla.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\"><h3>Share and Enjoy !<\/h3><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"wpsr-counter wpsrc-sz-40px\" style=\"color:#000\"><span class=\"scount\" data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest,print,pdf,twitter\"><i class=\"fa fa-share-alt\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><small class=\"stext\">Shares<\/small><\/div><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-count-1 sr-40px sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-pinterest\"><a data-pin-custom=\"true\" data-id=\"pinterest\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=&amp;media=&amp;description=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Submit this to Pinterest\"><i class=\"fab fa-pinterest\"><\/i><span class=\"ctext\" data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest\"><\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-print\"><a data-id=\"print\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Print this article \"><i class=\"fa fa-print\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-pdf\"><a data-id=\"pdf\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Convert to PDF\"><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-twitter\"><a data-id=\"twitter\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=%20-%20%20\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tweet this !\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.artvilla.com\\\/plt\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\"><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-32px sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-facebook\"><a data-id=\"facebook\" style=\"background-color:#1e73be;color:#8224e3;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share this on Facebook\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"background-color:#1e73be;color:#8224e3;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.artvilla.com\\\/plt\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press to Enlarge: Linear B, the very earliest Greek script, was used by the Mycenaeans and Minoans from ca. 1450 &#8211; 120 BCE for administrative, financial and accounting purposes only, at least so far as we know. 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