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Recently published by Cambridge University Press, the Lexicon provides fresh definitions and translations gleaned by re-reading most of Ancient Greek literature from its foundations in Homer, right through to the early second century AD.Introducing u

Ancient Greek text on a plaque on the Areopagus in Athens. Credit: Ioannis Kontomitros/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 GenericA new Ancient Greek dictionary has been created by a team of experts from Cambridge University, a gigantic labor of love that was more than twenty years in the making.Its creators say that the monumental work takes a…

The completed Cambridge Greek Lexicon, which is being published by Cambridge University Press, runs to two volumes and features around 37,000 Greek words, drawn from 90 authors and set out across 1,500 pages. The new dictionary’s editors “spare no blushes”, Diggle said, when it comes to the words that “brought a blush to Victorian cheeks”. The verb χέζω (chezo), translated by Liddell and Scott as “ease oneself, do one’s need”, is defined in th...