Talk:Duncan Mackenzie

Balance needed
This was written by an obvious partisan of Evans. We need some balance here. Let's have some page-number, line-item cites on the more scurrilous items; otherwise, it is just libel. Mackenzie was fired because he called Evans a liar with regard to the finds bearing on the date of Linear B, and the vindictive Evans, who had a lot of money, had no mercy but pursued his opponent for the rest of his life. Granted Evans was a great man but not everything great men do is great. Roosevelt wondered whether the president of the United States was not to be allowed one small vicious act. Well, you classicists know, a king may swallow his anger for today but later he works his wrath on his opponent. I dare say, I'm pretty well acquainted with that wrath, live classics, so to speak. But let us have a balanced view here, as that is Wikipedia policy. I got nothing against Evans beyond his anger but I think Mackenzie needs a fair deal here. It was Mackenzie who did the detailed work, you know.Dave (talk) 11:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Revisit and fix
I can't believe I wrote the above commant 10 years ago, and since then there has been no response. Well. I'm taking a brief break from Mycenaean Pottery to advance this article a bit. I need it for the pottery article. The connection is that for the first few years of the Knossos excavation they thought they were dealing mainly with Mycenaean pottery. Later they were asserting Mycenaean pottery was Minoan pottery. I'll try not to take another 10 years on this. Evans and MacKenzie had the whole site of Knossos excavated in only 5 years.Botteville (talk) 17:03, 27 January 2019 (UTC)