- Hardcover: 2438 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; Ninth Edition with Revised Supplement edition (April 30 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0198642261
- ISBN-13: 978-0198642268
- Product Dimensions: 36.7 x 23.3 x 8.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 3.9 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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`The ultimate compression of scholarship is the newly revised Greek-English Lexicon and its supplement.' Peter Stothard, The Times
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Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (9/e 1940) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. It is used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, and is an essential library and scholarly purchase there and in W. Europe and Japan. The main dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical Greek of the 11C - 8C BC (for example Homer and Hesiod), through Classical Greek (7C - 5C BC) to the Hellenistic Period, including the Greek Old and New Testaments. Entries list irregular inflections, and together with the definition, each sense includes citations from Greek authors illustrating usage. The Lexicon is Greek into English only, as are other ancient Greek dictionaries. This is the market expectation among both students and scholars. In 1968 the Lexicon was updated with a Supplement, which was available as a separate volume (until 1992) or bound together with the dictionary. Representing the culmination of 13 years' work, the new Revised Supplement is a complete replacement for the 1968 Supplement. Nearly twice the size of the 1968 edition, with over 20,000 entries, it adds to the dictionary words and forms from papyri and inscriptions discovered between 1940 and the 1990s as well as a host of other revisions, updatings, and corrections to the main dictionary. Linear B forms are shown within entries for the first time, and the Revised Supplement gives the dictionary a date-range from 1200 BC to 600 AD. It is fully cross-referenced to the main text but additions have been designed to be easily used without constant reference to the main text.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A dream comes true,
This review is from: A Greek-English Lexicon (Hardcover)
An academician pillar of European culture, the everlasting source of knowledge and inspiration.Yet, a bigger font would have not been redundant, hence a two volume edition might be considered.
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Excellent to ancient greek students,
This review is from: A Greek-English Lexicon (Hardcover)
If you are an ancient greek student, you must buy it. It's going to help you with new words. There are lots of examples and the sentences are taken from real greek texts. The only problem is that you need to understand a little bit of greek grammar. In spite of it, this is the best purchase I've made this year.
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Indispensable,
By Robert Bakhtiar (Toronto) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Greek-English Lexicon (Hardcover)
Excellent resource. I have not yet bought my own copy of the 1996 edition, even though I really need one. What has kept me away from buying it are the complaints from other reviewers about the illegibility of certain entries. Whoever sees this, especially those who have reviewed the 1996 (big LSJ), pleasee-mail me and let me know how bad the problem really is. Are all copies like this or just some? For it seems that some people (among the reviewers) have not had this problem with their editions, or that they at least don't complain about it. My e-mail is dionysus4400@yahoo.com. Thank you in advance.
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