Research Catalog

Title

Classical dictionaries : past, present and future / edited by Christopher Stray.

Publication

London : Duckworth, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stray, Christopher.

Description

viii, 229 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This title offers a wide-ranging introduction to dictionaries of Latin and Greek from the ancient world to the present: the last two chapters are written by those involved in the making of dictionaries which are still in progress.

Subject

• Classical philology > History
• Greek language > Lexicography > History
• Latin language > Lexicography > History
• Philologie ancienne > Histoire
• Grec (Langue) > Lexicographie > Histoire
• Latin (Langue) > Lexicographie > Histoire
• Languages
• Classical philology
• Greek language > Lexicography
• Latin language > Lexicography
• Grekiska språket > lexikografi > historia
• Latin > lexikografi > historia
• Klassisk filologi > historia

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Consists primarily of papers presented at a meeting held in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on June 6, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Greek dictionaries ancient and modern / Eleanor Dickey -- Nonne lexica etymologica multiplicanda sunt? / Joshua T. Katz -- Ploughing a lone furrow? : the single-author lexicon / Graham Whitaker -- Gradus ad Parnassum / David Butterfield -- Liddel and Scott : myths and markets / Christopher Stray -- Releasing Liddell-Scott-Jones from its past / John A.L. Lee -- A1-Zythum : Domimina nustio illumea, or out with the OLD (1931-82) / John Henderson -- Learners' lexica : the approach of the Cambridge Greek lexicon / Patrick James -- Ut Latine minus vulgariter magis loquamur : the making of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British sources / Richard Ashdowne.

ISBN

• 9780715639160
• 0715639161

LCCN

2011488827

OCLC

• 645674262
• SCSB-11978609

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library