Lexicographica Graeca
Subtitle: Contributions to the Lexicography of Ancient Greek
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: February 28, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780198149705
Description: H.G. Liddell and R. Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (revised and augmented by H.S. Jones in 1940) has been the essential tool of advanced Greek scholars for 150 years; in order to update it a new Supplement has been published (1996), replacing that of 1968. In this provocative reconsideration both of its lexicographical principles and of individual articles, John Chadwick examines the need for further revision and expansion of the volume through a reexamination of the classical Greek vocabulary.

A series of notes are presented, making important and stimulating contributions to the study of classical Greek lexicography, and offering many new interpretations of passages from familiar authors based upon a lexicographic approach. Essential reading for all scholars of classical Greek.