The GreekEnglish Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past centuryandahalf has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the Englishspeaking 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 twentytwo 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 Lexicons enormous effect on the evolving theory and practice of lexicography, it also includes a section looking forward to new developments in dictionarymaking in the digital age, bringing comprehensively up to date the question of what the future holds for this fascinating and perplexing monument to...

Binding: Hardcover;480 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: CBX; Weight: 1012 g; Dimensions: 241 x 161 x 32

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