James Thomas Hooker

James Thomas Hooker (born March 18, 1931 , † December 7, 1991 ) was a British classical philologist and mycenaean .

After studying Classical Philology in London, Hooker was lecturer at TBL Webster and the Indo-European and linguist Oswald Szemerényi , then a reader at University College London .

He mainly worked on the linguistic development of Greek from the Mycenaean to the Archaic level ( Homer ), but also on Mycenaean and Spartan history and culture .

One of his students at University College London was the mycenologist Gareth Alun Owens .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Mycenaean Greece . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, Boston 1976, ISBN 0-7100-8379-3 .
• The language and text of the Lesbian poets. Institute for Linguistics of the University, Innsbruck 1977 (Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics, Vol. 26), ISBN 3-85124-543-1 .
• Ieros in early Greek. Institute for Linguistics of the University, Innsbruck 1980 (Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics. Lectures and Smaller Papers, 22), ISBN 3-85124-553-9 .
• The Ancient Spartans . Dent, London 1980. - Review by Dyfri Williams , in: The Classical Review 32, 1982, pp. 58-59, (online) .
  • German translation: Sparta. History and culture . Translated from English by Erich Bayer. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010314-2 .
• Linear B. An Introduction . Bristol Classical Press, Bristol 1980, ISBN 0-906515-69-6 . - Review by Jon-Christian Billigmeier, in: American Journal of Philology 102, 1981, pp. 347-349, (on-line) .
• The coming of the Greeks . Regina Books, Claremont, California 1999, ISBN 0-941690-88-1 .

Text editions

• Homer, Iliad III. With introduction, notes and vocabulary by JT Hooker. Bristol Classical Press, Bristol 1979, ISBN 0-906515-14-9

Editorships

• (Ed.): Reading the past. Ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet. Introduced by JT Hooker. University of California Press, Berkeley 1990. - Review by David Kaser, in: The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 62, 1992, pp. 110-112, (online) .
• (Ed.): Oswald Szemerényi, Scripta minora. Selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin . Edited by P. Considine and JT Hooker, 1987 (Innsbrucker Beitrage zur Sprachwissenschaft, 53, 1-3).
• (Ed.): Studies in honor of TBL Webster . Edited by JH Betts, JT Hooker and JR Green. 2 vols., Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, 1986/1988, ISBN 0-86292-193-7 , ISBN 0-86292-194-5 .

items

• Sets and Files within the Knossos Tablets , in: Kadmos. Journal of Pre- and Early Greek Epigraphy 4, 1965, 86–95, doi : 10.1515 / kadm.1965.4.2.86 .
• Scripta minora. Selected essays on Minoan, Mycenaean, Homeric and classical Greek subjects . Edited by Frederic Amory. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-256-1104-4 .

literature

• Kritika daidalika. Evidence for the Minoan language. Selected essays in memory of James Hooker on the archeology, epigraphy and philology of Minoan and Mycenaean Crete . Edited by Gareth Owens . Hakkert, Amsterdam 1997. ISBN 9-025-61096-X .

Web links

• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Ancient Literature & Latin Tradition, Homer Bibliography 1978–1992, Hooker's contributions to Homer Philology
• Gareth Alun Owens: TEI of Crete - Daidalika: James T. Hooker, 1931–1991, Linguist and Teacher, Introduction to Linear B.