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I've been looking for a few days, but I'm having no success in finding one contemporary dictionary that I remember seeing. It was published in 1980 or 1990, and was specifically for just one of the ancient Greek novels.
Anybody know of it?
Contemporary lexicons
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Dictionary to one of the Ancient Greek novels
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Re: Contemporary lexicons
As far as I am aware, BDAG is the closest thing to a Hellenistic Greek lexicon, unless one for the LXX had better coverage in light of its larger corpus. I don't think that there enough people reading non-Christian Hellenistics text who find LSJ unhelpful to justify a publisher's investing in such a project, so I doubt that one could exist. But I could be wrong. All kinds of surprisingly narrow specialist works get published.
Stephen C. Carlson, Ph.D.
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Re: Contemporary lexicons
So Toynbee was probably right! And since we're speculating so much of late -- surmising the probable but open to unexpected possibilities -- perhaps a Platonic perspective on the matter of vocabulary is not altogether out of order: ignorance of non-Christian Hellenistic literature may skew our grasp of the range of meanings of vocabulary in the Christian literature. It does seem to be the case that study of the GNT has been handicapped in the past by an assumption that its language is in a category by itself in contemporary Greek literature.Stephen Carlson wrote:As far as I am aware, BDAG is the closest thing to a Hellenistic Greek lexicon, unless one for the LXX had better coverage in light of its larger corpus. I don't think that there enough people reading non-Christian Hellenistics text who find LSJ unhelpful to justify a publisher's investing in such a project, so I doubt that one could exist. But I could be wrong. All kinds of surprisingly narrow specialist works get published.
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
Re: Contemporary lexicons
If such a book does exist, you would likely find a reference to it in this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Greek-Novel-B ... 003OIB59A/
Mike Aubrey, Linguist
SIL International
Koine-Greek.com
SIL International
Koine-Greek.com