Theory and History
Proceedings of Lexicography Conferences
The Lexicography of Greek Culture, Ancient, Medieval and Modern; the Contemporary Encyclopedic Lexica
Centre for the Greek Language, ThessalonikiP
apers presented at the second International Lexicography Conference organized by the Centre for the Greek Language in 22nd November 2003 titled “The Lexicography of Greek Culture, Ancient, Medieval and Modern; the Contemporary Encyclopedic Lexica”.
Our aim is to present to the general public, and the field specialists as well, the encyclopedic dictionaries on Greek Culture (ancient, medieval and modern Greek). The dictionaries presented are multi-volume landmark works of contemporary philology; these dictionaries cover a wide range of fields of study, namely literature, rhetoric, philosophy, history and archaeology, and have influenced the research and teaching of Greek literature and culture – in both tertiary and secondary education.
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- CARL JOACHIM CLASSEN: Vita brevis ars longa: Pauly’s beginnings and Wissowa-Kroll-Ziegler’s monumental achievement (File PDF, 259KB)
- LUTZ KÄPPEL: Der Neue Pauly – Old models and new concepts. On the transformation of encyclopedic antiquarian lexicography into documentation of current scholarship (File PDF, 331KB)
- BERNHARDT ZIMMERMANN: The Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft in the past and today (File PDF, 171KB)
- SIMON HORNBLOWER & A.J.S. SPAWFORTH: The Oxford Classical Dictionary ed. 3 (1996): Ιnnovation and conservatism (File PDF, 184KB)
- ROBERTO PRETAGOSTINI & MARCO FANTUZZI: Greek Scholarship in the Italian dictionaries and encyclopedias of Classical antiquity (1945-2000) (File PDF, 209KB)
- PETER FRASER & ELAINE MATHEWS: The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Past and future perspectives (File PDF, 269KB)
- THEO KOBUSCH: Concept and Reality: The Basic Idea of the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie (File PDF, 175KB)
- FRANZ-HUBERT ROBLING: Rhetoric in classical shape and modern adaptation: the Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik (File PDF, 184KB)
- EMANOUIL VOUTYRAS: Two monumental mythological lexica: W.H. Roscher, Lexikon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie and Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) (File PDF, 238KB)
- FRANCO MONTANARI: Italian Dictionaries of Ancient Greek. Printed Books and Electronic Tools (File PDF, 217KB)
- PATRICK JAMES: The use and presentation of cultural material in a non-encyclopedic, general Greek lexicon (File PDF, 571KB)
- STEFANOS MATTHAIOS: Souda: The character and dynamics of an Encyclopedic Byzantine Dictionary Souda: The character and dynamics of an Encyclopedic Byzantine Dictionary (File PDF, 530KB)
- GEORGE A. CHRISTODOULOU: Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) as a lexicographer of Ancient Greek: Pages known and unknown (File PDF, 286KB)
- DANIELLE GOUREVITCH: Referred to Simply as Daremberg-Saglio… (File PDF, 266KB)
- ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (File PDF, 331KB)