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| Ninth Edition 1996 OxfordNice crisp font throughout, a couple of pages may have printed a little light but quite legible. I cannot say enough about what a labor of love this must have been.
a warningBy all means avoid the 2009 U. of Michigan edition of this indispensable book. It is a Google digital facsimile. Most pages are merely ugly, but perhaps fifty are so smudged, as if someone had dragged an inked rag across them, as to be completely illegible. I had to return my copy. Make sure to get the book produced by Oxford University Press.
The only book I ever sold that I wish I had backI took ancient greek in college for one semester. I loved it, but for some asinine reason, when selling my books at the end of the semester, I decided to take the $5 offered to me by the bookstore for this lexicon instead of keeping it. Bad move. I've wanted it back so many times since then, just to flip through or just to have it. I used it a lot in class and for my homework. It had a pleasant shape/weight/heft. I think I even wrote margin notes in it. I definitely should have kept the book. It's strange how we remember things like this nearly 20 years later.
my copy of Big Liddell is perfectI just want to say that I received my copy of Liddell Scott last week and it is perfect. No problems such as those mentioned in other reviews. I had a fear but now the fear is gone:)
All the best,
Ionut Vasile
As good as it gets for nowThis review is of the "Big Liddell," the 9th ed. with supplement. I specify this because this group of reviews also includes reviews of the "Middle Liddell" and the "Little Liddell," which Amazon seems to have jumbled together.
Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is a monument to lexicography. Methodologically, though, it needs a complete redo. Whether anyone will ever accomplish this is a good question. I have seen the suggestion in a scholarly article that the most feasible way to create a new comprehensive lexicon of Ancient Greek is to compile it online, in the fashion of the Perseus Project. Such a project would be the ideal source for a new printed Greek lexicon with up-to-date principles of organization, not to mention modern English equivalents to replace the large number of thoroughly antiquated equivalents found in L&S.
This lexicon is certainly indispensable for serious students of Classical Greek literature. It is also useful for reading the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) and patristic writers (for the latter, see also A Patristic Greek Lexicon). Another use which many might not have considered is for reading Coptic literature. Coptic is the latest form of the Ancient Egyptian language, and a great deal of religious literature was written in it during the first millennium or so of the Christian era. A good deal was translated from Greek as well. Whether translated or original Coptic, it made free use of Greek borrowings, much as English does. There is no lexicon devoted to literary Coptic Greek, but Liddell & Scott often have the meanings of words found in Coptic Greek, even if it's the 20th one in the list! Unless and until a complete dictionary of Coptic Greek is prepared, L&S will continue to be a necessary tool of Coptic scholars as well as classicists.
Product DescriptionLiddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. Used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, the dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical Greek of Homer and Hesiod to Classical Greek to the Hellenistic Period, including the Greek Old and New Testaments. This monumental work is now available with a brand new Revised Supplement. Representing the culmination of thirteen years' work, the new Supplement is a complete replacement of the 1968 Supplement. Nearly twice the size of the 1968 edition, with over 20,000 entries, it adds to the dictionary words and forms from papyri and inscriptions discovered between 1940 and the 1990s as well as a host of other revisions, updatings, and corrections to the main dictionary. Linear B forms are shown within entries for the first time, and the Revised Supplement gives the dictionary a date-range from 1200 BC to 600 AD. It is fully cross-referenced to the main text but additions have been designed to be easily used without constant reference to the main text.
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