Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0003
D. Butterfield
{"title":"Latin in the Lexicon","authors":"D. Butterfield","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"In 1843, with the publication of the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott, the decision to abandon the scholarly garb of Latin and opt for direct expression in the vernacular was, in its time, a remarkable one. And yet, despite almost every Greek lemma being rendered by Liddell and Scott into English, Latin plays a significant role in their Lexicon. In fact, every single page of the work, at least in its first few editions, contains some Latin. This chapter explores how and why Latin continued to play a significant role for Liddell and Scott, notwithstanding the impropriety of its allegedly ‘feeble and defective’ character. It traces a course through these different roles played by Latin in the Lexicon, before turning to the more protean—and somewhat purposeless—deployment of the language before its time was called by the editors of the ninth edition (1925–40).","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"7 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115482600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0006
B. Vine
{"title":"Incorporating New Evidence","authors":"B. Vine","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The editors of Liddell and Scott (LSJ), whose final fascicle appeared in 1940, could scarcely have imagined the 1952 decipherment of Linear B and the wealth of information it provided about the Greek language and Mycenaean culture. The Preface to the 1968 Supplement justified the absence of Mycenaean Greek material with the assertion that ‘[t]he scholarly world is at present divided on the validity of the Ventris decipherment’. While it is true that pockets of resistance to the decipherment persisted until surprisingly late, the alleged scholarly division seems overstated for the mid-1960s, when major handbooks like those of Ventris and Chadwick, Vilborg, and Palmer were very much part of mainstream scholarship. However that may be, a decision was finally reached to incorporate Mycenaean Greek forms into the 1996 Revised Supplement. This chapter takes stock of that decision so as to assess some aspects of its implementation in LSJ Supplement, and then considers what this may mean for the treatment of Mycenaean Greek in future editions.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126396847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0008
C. Rowe
{"title":"Philosophy and Linguistic Authority","authors":"C. Rowe","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on two particular aspects of the back history of Liddell and Scott (LSJ). First, Plato is, for LSJ, still one of the most important writers of ‘the best’ Attic prose, as he was, for its predecessors, of ‘correct’ Attic; he tends to be one of the benchmarks for Attic usage. But secondly, at the same time LSJ typically treats Plato as belonging to a breed apart: that of the Philosopher, with his own technical or semi-technical vocabulary, his own special ‘philosophical’ ways of thinking, as if these were quite separate from those of non-’philosophical’ authors. The chief purpose of the chapter is to illustrate some of the difficulties attaching to these two approaches, both of which are rooted firmly in earlier editions, stretching back even to the first in 1843.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129283833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0017
M. Silk
{"title":"Literary Lexicography","authors":"M. Silk","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Poetic language in the Western traditions subsumes two distinct categories of usage: elevation (whereby usage conforms to a conventional ‘high style’) and heightening (whereby meaning is enriched, often by mechanisms of defamiliarization). How should a historical dictionary of a dead language deal with literary, especially poetic, language? This chapter attempts to clarify the issues and sets out some principles for ‘literary lexicography’, with special reference to Liddell and Scott (LSJ) and ancient Greek poetry, and to Greek usage in the early and classical periods. The issues dealt with apply equally to Liddell and Scott and the Revised Supplement; for the most part the discussion will subsume both.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127605316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0011
M. Janse
{"title":"The Ancient, the Medieval, and the Modern in a Greek-English Lexicon, or How To Get Your Daily ‘Bread’ in Greek Any Day Through the Ages","authors":"M. Janse","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Liddell and Scott (LSJ) has always been entitled A Greek-English Lexicon, from the first (1843) through to the ninth edition (1940). Clearly no need was felt to add Ancient to the title, even though LSJ is not and never was intended to be a comprehensive lexicon of the Greek language in its entire history. This chapter asks whether the scope of Ancient should be extended to include later stages, particularly the Medieval and the Modern, given the remarkable continuity of the Greek language stressed by Chantraine and others. With the availability of the online LSJ this is an option which should be seriously considered, although the editorial problems of a continuously updated online version may seem forbidding.β","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117108718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0018
M. Meier-Brügger
{"title":"Lessons Learned During my Time at the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos","authors":"M. Meier-Brügger","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"The Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos (LfgrE) was founded by Bruno Snell after World War II at the University of Hamburg. The chapter’s author was responsible for LfgrE from 1984 until its completion in 2010. The focus of LfgrE is the lexical semantics of the words and the semantic fields that each one occupies. This chapter presents the author’s reflections on some of the lessons learned in those years of working on the Lexikon. It presents a sample set of case studies to check the quality of the information presented in Liddell and Scott against the results obtained during the author’s life-long research in the field of Greek lexicography, with an emphasis on early epic.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117036016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0001
C. Stray
{"title":"Liddell and Scott in Historical Context","authors":"C. Stray","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 ‘Liddell and Scott has become so familiar to scholars of Greek that they tend to take it for granted. However, behind this monumental and impartial familiarity is a complex history of scholarly controversy and commercial book production. This chapter sets the first eight editions of the Lexicon (1843–97) in a number of contemporary contexts: the institutional and intellectual world of Oxford in the 1830s and 1840s; the emergence of classical dictionaries using vernaculars rather than Latin for glosses; the relationship of the Lexicon with other dictionaries; the development of the book through successive editions and abridgements; the reputation of the Lexicon; and its printing and publishing history. The chapter aims to explore these separate contexts, and to suggest how they interacted.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125957514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 2019-10-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0010
Patrick James
{"title":"The Greek of the New Testament","authors":"Patrick James","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the story of the treatment of the Greek of the New Testament in the Lexicon alongside a critical assessment of that treatment. It examines the internal evidence of a selection of entries for words attested in the New Testament as well as the external evidence from discussions of the Lexicon (including, for the present purpose, the various Prefaces). The chapter focuses on the development from the eighth edition of Liddell and Scott (LS8) to LSJ. LSJ marked something of a new beginning, not only in its coverage but also in its approach both to the New Testament’s vocabulary and to its Greek in general. By contrast, LS7 was in effect reprinted as LS8, the last edition from Liddell himself.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133657040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liddell and ScottPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0013
E. Bracke
{"title":"Between Cunning and Chaos","authors":"E. Bracke","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810803.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the tension running through the nine editions by focusing on the development of one particular entry, that for μῆτις. This term is best known from the 1974 book by Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant, Les ruses de l’intelligence: la métis des Grecs, still widely regarded as authoritative The ambiguity inherent in ruses—also present in the English title ‘cunning intelligence’—stands in contrast to LSJ’s broader definition as, firstly, ‘wisdom, skill, craft’, and, secondly, ‘counsel, plan, undertaking’. The chapter therefore sets out to explore both the intratextual tensions within the various editions of Liddell and Scott as well as the outward tensions between the Lexicon and contemporary scholarship.","PeriodicalId":145473,"journal":{"name":"Liddell and Scott","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124638920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}