Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Rupert Thompson 

Dr Rupert Thompson is a Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics and a Fellow of Selwyn College.

Contact:

Post: Selwyn College, Cambridge CB3 9DQ
E-mail: rjet1@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (3)35649 (College)

Major publications:

‘Instrumentals, datives, locatives and ablatives: the -phi case form in Mycenaean and Homer.’ Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. 44, 1998, 219–250.
‘Dialects in Mycenaean and Mycenaean among the dialects.’ Minos 31–32, 1996–1997 [1998], 313-333.
Review: J.T. Hooker, Scripta Minora. Selected essays on Minoan, Mycenaean, Homeric and Classical Greek subjects. JHS 119, 1999, 175–176.
‘Bulls’ testicles and Mycenaean onomastics: must iphi be singular?’ in J. Bennet ed., A-NA-QO-TA. Studies presented to J.T. Killen. Minos 33–34, 1998–1999 [2002], 339–347.
‘Prepositional usage in Arcado-Cypriot and Mycenaean: a Bronze Age isogloss?’ Minos 35–36, 2000–2001 [2002], 395–430.
‘What the Butler saw: some thoughts on the syntax and semantics of the Mycenaean o- ~ jo- introductory particle.’ Minos 37–38, 2002–2003 [2006], 317–336.
‘Special vs. Normal Mycenaean Revisited.’ Minos 37–38, 2002–2003 [2006], 337–369.
‘Mycenaean mo-ro-qa.’ In Massimo Perna, ed., Fiscality in Mycenaean and Near Eastern Archives. Proceedings of the Conference held at Soprintendenza Archivistica per la Campania, Naples, 21-23 October 2004. Studi Egei e Vicinorientali 3. Paris: De Boccard 2006 (225–240).
‘Two notes on Mycenaean labial stops.’ in Ziva Antika 55, 2005 [2006], 107–115.
‘Long mid vowels in Attic-Ionic and Cretan’, PCPS 52, 2006, 81–101.

Research interests:

Greek dialectology, Mycenaean Greek, Linear B, Indo-European,
Historical and comparative linguistics.

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Linguistic history of Cyprus.

History of writing on Crete.

Other Faculty positions:

E Caucus Secretary