José Luis Melena Jiménez

José Luis Melena Jiménez (* 1946 in Donostia , Gipuzkoa , Spain ) is a Spanish ( Basque ) classical philologist ( Graecist ) and Mycenaeologist .

Life

Melena studied Classical Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid . After completing his doctorate, he taught ancient Greek language and literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, at the Torres Villarroel Institute in Salamanca and at the La Laguna University . Since 1983 he has been Full Professor (catedrático) at the University of the Basque Country ( Gasteiz Campus ). In 1999 he was awarded the Euskadi Ikerketa Prize, and in 2000 he received the Premio Munibe for 1999 from the Parliament of the Basque Country ( Eusko Legebiltzarrak ) and the Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País ( Euskalerriaren Adiskideen Elkartea ) .

Melena was also director of the Instituto Cultural Español Reina Sofía (now Instituto Cervantes ) in Athens and cultural attaché of the Spanish embassy in Athens.

Research areas

In the past, Melena has dealt with general and comparative linguistics in the form of transcriptions of relevant English-language works, including the introduction by Leonard Robert Palmer . He has also published a commemorative publication for the linguist and leading bascologist of his time, Koldo Mitxelena Elissalt (1915–1987, also called Luis Michelena).

In the field of Mycenology, Melena has published on numerous individual aspects of Mycenaean Greek and works closely with leading scholars. With the Spanish Graecist and linguist Martín S. Ruipérez he has published an introduction to the Mycenaean language and culture. Melena is also editor of the magazine Minos: Revista de Filología Egea with Thomas G. Palaima .

Fonts (selection)

To linguistics

• Theodora Bynon: Lingüística histórica. Versión española de José L. Melena. Editorial Gredos, Madrid 1981.
• Robert P. Stockwell: Fundamentos de teoría sintáctica. Versión española de José L. Melena. Editorial Gredos, Madrid 1980.
• James M. Anderson: Aspectos estructurales del cambio lingüístico. Versión española de José L. Melena. Editorial Gredos, Madrid 1977.
• Leonard R. Palmer: Introducción crítica a la lingüística descriptiva y comparada. Versión española de José L. Melena. Editorial Gredos, Madrid 1975.

To mykenology

• Textos Griegos Micénicos Comentados. Vitoria-Gasteiz 2001, (pp. 8-79 online) .
• with Martín S. Ruipérez: Los griegos micenicos. Hermanos García Noblejas, Madrid 1990, (online) .
• Studies on some Mycenaean inscriptions from Knossos dealing with textiles. Universidad Salamanca, 1975 (Suplementos a Minos, 5). - Review by Leonard R. Palmer, in: Gnomon 50, 1978, pp. 299-301, (online) .
• Theodoros G. Spyropoulos, John Chadwick : The Thebes Tablets II. Including Indexes of the Thebes Tablets by José L. Melena. Universidad Salamanca, 1975 (Suplementos a Minos, 4). - Review by Leonard R. Palmer, in: Gnomon 50, 1978. Ss. 588-590, (online) .

Editorships

• with John Tyrell Killen , Jean-Pierre Olivier (Ed.): Studies in Mycenaean and classical Greek presented to John Chadwick. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 1987 (Minos, 20-22).
• (Ed.): Symbolae Ludovico Mitxelena septuagenario oblatae. Universidad del País Basco, Gasteiz, Vitoria 1985.

Web links

• Literature by and about José Luis Melena Jiménez in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Short presentation, in: José Luis Melena, Martín S. Ruipérez: Los griegos micenicos. Hermanos García Noblejas, Madrid 1990, p. 8, (online) ..
• University of Rioja, Dialnet: José Luis Melena Jiménez ( List of publications 1972–2010).
• Academia.edu : Personal page (65 articles as download).
• Report on the activities at PASP, University of Texas at Austin, October 16 - November 5, 1999 ( Memento of July 24, 2008 on the Internet Archive ).
• El País : El catedrático José Luis Melena recibe el premio Munibe 1999 .
• Kim Raymoure: José L. Melena and the Pylos Joins , January 8, 2013.