FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W3046702406> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W3046702406 endingPage "14" @default.
• W3046702406 startingPage "9" @default.
• W3046702406 abstract "Maurice W.M. Pope (17/2/1926 – 1/8/2019) John Atkinson Click for larger view View full resolution MAURICE W.M. POPE (17/2/1926 – 1/8/2019) Maurice Pope was born in London in 1926 and survived the mockery of once being addressed by a master at Rottingdean School as 'Your Holiness'. Then at Sherborne School Maurice took advantage of the special scheme which meant that by signing up for military service before he reached the age for enrolment, he would on leaving school be able to study at Cambridge University for six months as a naval cadet before joining the navy. In the navy he rose to the rank of third officer on a landing craft (LC Tank 1187), and left the navy at the end of 1946. Now he was able to return to Cambridge to resume his programme in Classics, but this time as a regular undergraduate. After graduating he made his way south to Cape Town as his parents had emigrated there. By chance the Classics Department at the University of Cape Town had lost two members of staff, and so in 1949 he was offered a temporary lectureship for a year, and then as that contract ended another permanent post was advertised, and Maurice was appointed. The Head of the Department was the autocratic Scotsman William Rollo, a specialist on the Basque dialect, and the other professor was Harold Baldry, whom Maurice described as 'one of those people one never gets to know.'1 Maurice duly served as a lecturer till he qualified for a year's leave and by the time he arrived back in 1954, Rollo and Baldry had left for other posts, and their professorial posts were taken by Anton Paap, whose field was Greek papyrology, and George Goold, a specialist in Latin, but with an interest in the decipherment of Bronze Age scripts.2 For these a model was set by Alice Kober's breakthrough in 1948 with the Mycenean Linear B texts.3 Kober's ideas were picked up by Michael Ventris, who had as a boy heard Sir Arthur Evans lecture on the Minoan scripts in 1936. After the Second World War he trained as an architect and developed his interest in the Mycenaean scripts. Maurice got to know Ventris when they met on Chios in 1954, and heard him lecture on his decipherment of Mycenaean Greek. Then, when [End Page 9] George Goold (who had served as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the war) arrived at the University of Cape Town in 1955, he brought with him a collection of Minoan 'texts' written in what were known as Linear A. Thus Maurice was pleased to have Goold's encouragement to take his interest in Linear A further. Working with his junior colleague Brian Newton, Maurice was able to show that the text was syllabic and the language inflected. In no time Maurice and Goold were able to publish Preliminary Investigations into the Cretan Linear A Script,4 and this was followed by two books by Maurice, co-authored with Jacques Raison.5 Maurice had a great sense of humour, as gloriously illustrated by the title he gave his autobiography, Amateur. Yes, his first degree was a shortened post-war version, and a doctorate was not a prerequisite for a professorship or the deanship at the University of Cape Town. But his calibre and originality are amply illustrated in his work on the decipherment of Linear A, his books, and the range of his articles in major periodicals. One may single out his demolition work on the Parry-Lord theory of Homeric composition.6 Common to these two fields of enquiry – Linear A and Homer – was meticulous statistical calculation of symbol or word combinations. The same analytical approach was also applied, with similar clear and compelling results, to questions of interpretation of literary texts.7 The article on Athena goes way beyond what the title may suggest, including an appendix with table of the epithets of Odysseus in the Iliad, the Doloneia, and the Odyssey, with commentary. The article gives strong support to the notion of the originality of the author of the Iliad, and..." @default.
• W3046702406 created "2020-08-07" @default.
• W3046702406 creator A5022750475 @default.
• W3046702406 date "2020-01-01" @default.
• W3046702406 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
• W3046702406 title "Maurice W.M. Pope (17/2/1926 – 1/8/2019)" @default.
• W3046702406 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2020.0006" @default.
• W3046702406 hasPublicationYear "2020" @default.
• W3046702406 type Work @default.
• W3046702406 sameAs 3046702406 @default.
• W3046702406 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W3046702406 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W3046702406 hasAuthorship W3046702406A5022750475 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C144661447 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C162324750 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C187736073 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C188082385 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C2776746162 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C2776948989 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C2777189325 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C2777522355 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C2779732396 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C52119013 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C555826173 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C74916050 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C121332964 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C142362112 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C144661447 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C162324750 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C166957645 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C17744445 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C187736073 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C188082385 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C199539241 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C2776746162 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C2776948989 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C2777189325 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C2777522355 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C2779732396 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C52119013 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C555826173 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C62520636 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C74916050 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C94625758 @default.
• W3046702406 hasConceptScore W3046702406C95457728 @default.
• W3046702406 hasIssue "1" @default.
• W3046702406 hasLocation W30467024061 @default.
• W3046702406 hasOpenAccess W3046702406 @default.
• W3046702406 hasPrimaryLocation W30467024061 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W2083708021 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W208593948 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W2370635861 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W292747715 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W3110514888 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W339693792 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W4251908678 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W620174159 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W1857584137 @default.
• W3046702406 hasRelatedWork W2282874367 @default.
• W3046702406 hasVolume "63" @default.
• W3046702406 isParatext "false" @default.
• W3046702406 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W3046702406 magId "3046702406" @default.
• W3046702406 workType "article" @default.