Liddell and Scott

The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Anci

By: Christopher Stray (Editor), Michael Clarke (Editor), Joshua T. Katz (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 September 2019

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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.

Industry Reviews

in the end ... what we have [in the existing 'Lexicon'] is a work of remarkably high quality. Put another way, LSJ remains not just important but essential for serious scholarly work on ancient Greek because, whatever else one may say about them and their 'Lexicon', Liddell, Scott, and Jones were very, very good at what they did. * S. Douglas Olson, GNOMON *
This is a magisterial survey, which will demand the attention of all who write on this word in the future. * JAMES DIGGLE, Queens' College, Cambridge, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *
The editors have done a good job * James Diggle, Queens' College, Cambridge, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *
Liddell and Scott...is a book that is fascinating - full of detailed and intelligent appraisal and analysis - and...lets us see is how much more care and attention we need to pay to how LSJ has been constructed and what its impact and limitations are. * Simon Goldhill, King's College, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
we have been given a masterclass in lexicography by one of the world's leading scholars. Production values are high, and the editors are to be warmly commended on their successful completion of what was surely a most arduous task. * Colin Leach, Classics for All *

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