Francisco Aura Jorro

Francisco Aura Jorro (* 20th century) is a Spanish classical philologist ( Graecist ) and mycenaeologist .

Francisco Aura Jorro held a full professorship for Greek language and literature at the University of Alicante and has emerged as the chief editor of the Diccionario Micénico , a Greek-Spanish dictionary which, for the first time after the Mycenaeae Graecitatis Lexicon (1963) by Anna Morpurgo Davies, encompasses the entire Lexical inventory of Mycenaean Greek ( Linear B ) including evidence of the interpretations recorded. The Diccionario Micénico is a completed sub-project of the Diccionario Griego-Español , which is being developed under the overall direction of Francisco Rodríguez Adrados . A second edition is in preparation.

Aura Jorro has now retired .

Fonts (selection)

• Diccionario Micénico , Volume I [A-N]. Redactado por Francisco Aura Jorro bajo la dirección de Francisco Rodríguez Adrados ( Diccionario Griego-Español , Anejo I). Madrid, CSIC, 1985, ISBN 84-00-06128-4 , (excerpts online) .
• Diccionario Micénico , Volume II [O-Z]. Redactado por Francisco Aura Jorro bajo la dirección de Francisco Rodríguez Adrados ( Diccionario Griego-Español , Anejo II). Madrid, CSIC, 1993, ISBN 84-00-07327-4

literature

• Alberto Bernabé Pajares , Eugenio R. Luján (eds.): Donum Mycenologicum. Mycenaean Studies in Honor of Francisco Aura Jorro. Peeters, Leuven 2014 (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain. Antiquité; 131), (cover, table of contents and an article online) . - Review by John Bennet , Bryn Mawr Classical Review 25.04.2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Francisco Aura Jorro in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• Personal page at the University of Alicante ( Memento of October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Laudation to Enrique Llobregat Conesa on the occasion of the honorary doctorate