Lost Temple

Historical Note

Linear B was actually deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick. The story of their achievement, one of the great intellectual feats of the twentieth century, is told with elegant clarity in Chadwick's The Decipherment of Linear B; and in full scholarly detail in their joint work Documents in Mycenaean Greek.

All the classical authors referred to in this novel are genuine and all the quotations from them are accurate. Reed's quotations from Homer are from the translations of Alexander Pope.