Liddell and Scott: making and remaking

Journal article

Since its first edition was published in 1843, Liddell and Scott's Greek-English lexicon has reigned supreme in the English-speaking world. It has gone through nine editions and is now flanked by supplements, an abridged lexicon (1843) and an intermediate lexicon (1889). The lexicon has been criticised and commented on by classical scholars and enthusiastic amateurs for more than a century, and over the same period has become an institution, an authoritative companion to learners and the learned alike. The survival of correspondence, editorial files and production data in the archives of Oxford University Press make it possible to trace a history of revision in which the scholarly concern for accuracy and the reader's desire for clear exposition have often been in tension with the logistics and economics of printing and publishing.

Authors: Stray, C

• Alternative title: Presented at Historical Dictionaries 2 session
• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publication date: 2016-01-01
• Edition: Author's Original
• Language: English
• Subjects: Medieval and Modern Greek; Lexicography; Hellenic languages; History of the book