Archaeology Odyssey

The title is actually written wa-na-kai in the tablets, which is the Linear B spelling for the Greek wãnaj. In later Greek, ênaj generally meant “lord” and was used to denote divinities, heroes, and kings. For a comprehensive presentation of the Linear B tablets, see Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

Iphiyenia Tournavitou, The “Ivory Houses” at Mycenae (London: British School at Athens, 1995), frontispiece, p. 498.

Elizabeth DeMarrais, Luis Jaime Casillo and Timothy K. Earle, “Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies,” Current Anthropology 37 (1996), pp. 15–31.

For the reference to Praxiteles, see Strabo, Geography 14.1.23; for the reference to Phidias and Polycletus, see Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.53.

Ten-Year Annals 46–53, in A. Goetze, ed., Die Annalen des Mursilis (Leipzig, 1933).

See Strabo, Geography 14.1.24.

Freud’s thesis has recently been investigated along with other versions of the “Egyptian Moses” by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997).

Totem and Taboo, in SE 13:156.

“A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession” (1916), in SE 14:337–338.