A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition

A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition

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<div>For nearly a century, Richard John Cunliffe’s <i>Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect</i> has served as an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Homer’s <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>. As both an English-Homeric dictionary and a concordance, the <i>Lexicon</i> lists and defines in English all instances of Greek words that appear in the two epics. Now, with the inclusion of Cunliffe’s “Homeric Proper and Place Names”—a forty-two-page supplement to the <i>Lexicon</i>—this expanded edition will be even more useful to readers of Homer.</div><div><BR>In his original preface to the supplement, Cunliffe explained that proper and place names had to be excluded from the <i>Lexicon</i> “chiefly on the ground of expense.” Although the <i>Lexicon</i> has enjoyed perennial popularity, scholars have long lamented the absence of “capitalized” name-forms in the <i>Lexicon</i>. By consolidating the two works into one handy single-volume format, this expanded edition fills the only gap in Cunliffe’s indispensable reference.</div><div><BR>In his preface to the expanded edition, James H. Dee explains the benefits of uniting the two dictionaries. In addition, Dee provides a brief list of errata and a helpful key to Cunliffe’s system of referencing the poems according to Greek letter.</div><BR>