The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (Set): Deluxe Edition (English and Ancient Greek Edition) - Hardcover

Franco Montanari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004298118 ISBN 13: 9789004298118

Publisher: Brill, 2015

Synopsis

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is also available as a single volume and online. This luxury edition offers the same high-quality content as the regular edition but is bound in two slimmer volumes with linen stamped covers and comes in a linen-clad box.. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond.The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is an invaluable companion for the study of Classics and Ancient Greek, for beginning students and advanced scholars alike. Translated and edited under the auspices of The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino. Features The principal parts of some 15,000 verbs are listed directly following the entry and its etymology. For each of these forms, the occurrence in the ancient texts has been certified. When found only once, the location is cited. Nearly all entries include citations from the texts with careful mention of the source. The dictionary is especially rich in personal names re-checked against the sources for the 3rd Italian edition, and in scientific terms, which have been categorized according to discipline. Each entry has a clear structure and typography making it easy to navigate. "For a number of years now, scholars at ease in Italian have benefitted enormously from the riches, layout, concision, and accuracy of Professor Montanari's Vocabolario della Lingua Greca, with its added advantage of the inclusion of names. Hence classicists in general will welcome the English version of this very valuable resource." Professor Richard Janko, University of Michigan Franco Montanari is a giant in our field, and his Dictionary is a major leap forward for us . Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University"

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About the Author:

Franco Montanari is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Genoa (Italy), Director of the Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, of the Centro Italiano dell'Annee Philologique and of the Aristarchus project online, and a member of numerous international research centers and associations. Apart from the Vocabolario della Lingua Greca he has published many other scientific works on ancient scholarship and grammar, archaic Greek epic poets and other Greek poets of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, including Brill s Companion to Hesiod (2009) and Brill s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015)."

Review:

"Franco Montanari is a giant in our field, and his Dictionary is a major leap forward for us." --Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University

"For a number of years now, scholars at ease in Italian have benefitted enormously from the riches, layout, concision, and accuracy of Professor Montanari's Vocabolario della Lingua Greca, with its added advantage of the inclusion of names. Hence classicists in general will welcome the English version of this very valuable resource." --Professor Richard Janko, University of Michigan

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004298118
• ISBN 13: 9789004298118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 2431
• Editor: Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder