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Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at Swansea University. He has held visiting positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge; the Beinecke Library, Yale University; and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He works on the history and sociology of classical teaching and learning at school and university level, and has also published on examinations, institutional slang, and textbooks. He contributed three chapters to the History of Oxford University Press, and is currently working on contributions to a forthcoming history of Trinity College, Cambridge.Michael Clarke is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His early research was closely focused on Homeric epic, with publications including Flesh and Spirit in the Songs of Homer (OUP, 2000). Since that time he has pursued two complementary research directions: historical semantics and language change on the one hand and comparative approaches to epic and myth on the other. He is the author of numerous studies of classical influences on medieval literatures, and is working on a long-term study of Togail Troí, the Middle Irish saga of the Trojan War.Joshua T. Katz is Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics, and a member of the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1998. A linguist by training, a classicist by profession, and a comparative philologist at heart, he has published widely in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient world, from India to Ireland via Greece, Rome, and the Near East. His recent work has concentrated on how Archaic Greek poems begin, as well as on the history and practice of wordplay, but he maintains an active interest in Vergil, etymology, and badgers.

in the end ... what we have [in the existing 'Lexicon'] is a work of remarkably high quality. Put another way, LSJ remains not just important but essential for serious scholarly work on ancient Greek because, whatever else one may say about them and their 'Lexicon', Liddell, Scott, and Jones were very, very good at what they did.

• Frontmatter List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Christopher Stray: A Note on the History of the Lexicon I. HISTORY AND CONSTITUTION OF THE LEXICON 1: Christopher Stray: Liddell and Scott in Historical Context: Victorian Beginnings, Twentieth-Century Developments 2: Margaret Williamson: Dictionaries as Translations: English in the Lexicon 3: David Butterfield: Latin in the Lexicon 4: Amy Coker: Obscenity: A Problem for the Lexicographer 5: Joshua T. Katz: Etymology and Etymologies in the Lexicon II. PERIODS AND GENRES OF EVIDENCE 6: Brent Vine: Incorporating New Evidence: Mycenaean Greek in the Revised Supplement (1996) 7: Tom Mackenzie: A Canonical Author: The Case of Hesiod 8: Christopher Rowe: Philosophy and Linguistic Authority: The Problem of Plato's Greek 9: Elizabeth Craik: Medical Vocabulary, with Especial Reference to the Hippocratic Corpus 10: Patrick James: The Greek of the New Testament 11: Mark Janse: 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 12: Philomen Probert: Greek Dialects in the Lexicon 13: Evelien Bracke: Between Cunning and Chaos: mêtis III. METHODOLOGY AND PROBLEMS 14: Michael Clarke: Looking for Unity in a Dictionary Entry: A Perspective from Prototype Theory 15: David Goldstein: Discourse Particles in LSJ: A Fresh Look at *g*e 16: James Clackson: LSJ and the Diachronic Taxonomy of the Greek Vocabulary 17: Michael Silk: Literary Lexicography: Aims and Principles IV. COMPARISONS IN TIME AND SPACE 18: Michael Meier-Brügger: Lessons Learned During my Time at the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos (LfgrE) 19: Martin L. WestDR: Diminishing Returns and New Challenges 20: Anne Thompson: bápt=o: An Illustration of the State of our Ancient Greek Dictionaries 21: John Considine: Liddell and Scott and the Oxford English Dictionary Endmatter Bibliography Index