Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Philippa Steele

Dr Philippa Steele is a Lumley Research  Fellow in Classics at Magdalene College, Director of Studies in Classics at Homerton College, and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Classics. 

In 2013-14 she will act as the Evans-Pritchard Lecturer at All Souls College, Oxford, giving a series of public lectures on ‘Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus’.

Contact
Magdalene College
Cambridge CB3 0AG
Email: pms45@cam.ac.uk

Select Publications

A Linguistic History of Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600-300 BC, forthcoming (CUP).

As editor: Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context, forthcoming (2012, CUP).

'The Diversity of the Cypro-Minoan Corpus', forthcoming in Zurbach, J. et al. (eds.) Actes du XIII^e colloque international sur les textes mycéniens et égéens, Paris 20-23 septembre 2010 (in press).

''Legality' and Mycenaean Scribes', forthcoming in Kyriakidis, E. (ed.), Inner Workings of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy (special issue of Pasiphae) (in press).

'Eteocypriot: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence', in Georgiou, A. (ed.), Cyprus: an island culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period, Oxford 2011, 122-32.

''Gaps' in Literacy: Social responses to economic crisis in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean', Archaeological Review from Cambridge 2011, 53-63.

'Review: Horrocks, G., Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers', Scholia 20 2011, 5 (http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/11-05hor.htm).

'Review: Bakker, E.J. (ed.), A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language, Scholia 20 2011, 19 (http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/11-19bak.htm).

With Markus Egetmeyer (Chair of Greek Linguistics, Sorbonne): 'A New Archaic and Possibly Cypriot Inscription from Cilicia', Kadmos 49 2010, 127-32.

'Review: Sacconi, A. et al. (eds.), Colloquium Romanum', JHS 130 (Nov) 2010, 287-8.

'Review: Steel, L., Prehistoric Cyprus', Scholia 19 2010, 14 (http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/10-13ste.htm).

'Methodology in Mycenaean Prosopography: The Use of Names as Evidence', Kadmos 48 2009, 93-106.

'A Comparative Look at Mycenaean and Near Eastern Bureaucracies: 'Bilateral' Documentation in the Linear B Archives?', Kadmos 47 2008, 31-49.

'Celluloid Classics: The Ancient World and the Twenty-First Century', Opellae 2005, 55-62.

Current research interests

The scripts and languages of ancient Cyprus (esp. Cypro-Minoan, Eteocypriot, Phoenician); the Aegean linear scripts (Linear A and B); the Greek language and language contact in the ancient eastern Mediterranean; ancient Greek dialectology; script use and administration in the Mycenaean world; multilingualism; epigraphy; the interdisciplinary study of ancient populations; island studies.