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Title Liddell and Scott : the history, methodology, and languages of the world's leading Lexicon of ancient Greek / edited by Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, and Joshua T. Katz
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 453 pages) : illustrations
Contents Liddell and Scott in historical context : Victorian beginnings, twentieth-century developments / Christopher Stray -- Dictionaries as translations : English in the lexicon / Margaret Williamson -- Latin in in the lexicon / David Butterfield -- Obscenity : a problem for the lexicographer -- Etymology and etymologies in the lexicon / Joshua T. Katz -- Incorporating new evidence : Mycenaean Greek in the revised supplement / Brent Vine -- Canonical author : the case of Hesiod / Tom Mackenzie -- Philosophy and linguistic authority : the problem of Plato's Greek / Christopher Rowe -- Medical vocabulary, with especial reference to the Hippocratic corpus / Elizabeth Craik -- Greek of the New Testament / Patrick James -- Ancient, the medieval, and the modern in a Greek-English lexicon, or how to get your daily 'bread' in Greek any day through the ages -- Greek dialects in the lexicon / Philomen Probert -- Between cunning and chaos: ... / Evelien Bracke -- Looking for utility in a dictionary entry : a perspective from prototype theory / Michael Clarke -- Discourse particles in lSJ : a fresh at ... / David Goldstein -- lSJ and the diachronic taxonomy of the greek vocabulary / James Clackson -- Literary lexicography: aims and principles / Michael Silk -- Lessons learned during my time at the lexikon des frugriechischen epos / Michael Meier-Brugger -- Diminishing returns and new challenges / Martin L. West -- ...: an Illustration of the State of our ancient Greek dictionaries / Anne Thompson -- Liddell and Scott and the Oxford English Dictionary / John Considine
Summary "The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time, however, it carries undiminished authority both for its account of the Greek language and for its system of organizing and presenting linguistic data. 0The present volume brings together essays by twenty-two scholars on all aspects of the history, constitution, and problematics of this extraordinary work, enabling the reader both to understand its complex history and to appreciate it as a monument to the challenges and pitfalls of classical scholarship. The contributors have combined a variety of approaches and methodologies - historical, philological, theoretical - in order to situate the book within the various disciplines to which it is relevant, from semantics, lexicography, and historical linguistics, to literary theory, Victorian studies, and the history of the book. Paying tribute to the Lexicon's enormous effect on the evolving theory and practice of lexicography, it also includes a section looking forward to new developments in dictionary-making in the digital age, bringing comprehensively up to date the question of what the future holds for this fascinating and perplexing monument to the challenges of understanding an ancient language"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 30, 2020)
Subject Liddell, Henry George, 1811-1898. Greek-English lexicon
Greek language.
Greek language
Form Electronic book
Author Liddell, Henry George, 1811-1898.
Scott, Robert, 1811-1887.
Stray, Christopher, editor.
Clarke, Michael (Michael J.), editor.
Katz, Joshua Timothy, editor.
ISBN 9780191847912
0191847917
9780192538826
0192538829
9780192538819
0192538810
Other Titles Liddell & Scott