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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Ancient Greek dictionary?
In-Reply-To: shahramn@wv.mentorg.com's message of 11 Jan 1995 15:08:51 GMT
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In article <3f0sa3$qkt@hpmos.wv.mentorg.com> shahramn@wv.mentorg.com
(shahram_najm@mentorg.com) writes:

>I am looking for a dictionary of Ancient Greek to English.
>Is there such a beast? 

The sci.classics FAQ lists several.

Depending on what you want to read, the best ones are Autenrieth's _Homeric
Dictionary_ or the small Liddell.  (Note that Liddell's _Intermediate Lexicon_
is actually less helpful to a beginner because it assumes a knowledge of
irregular verb and noun forms that the smaller dictionary does not.)

If you are looking for a *big* dictionary, Liddell-Scott-Jones is the way to go
(if you want to spend US$200).
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
