Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek

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Synopsis
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. The 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.
Copyright:
2019

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ISBN-13:
9780192538826
Related ISBNs:
9780192538819, 9780198810803
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
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Copyrighted By:
Oxford University Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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Edited by:
Christopher Stray
Edited by:
Michael Clarke
Edited by:
Joshua T. Katz

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