: Francesca Schironi
: From Alexandria to Babylon Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812)
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110215403
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: 1
: CHF 111.00
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: Altertum
: English
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This is an edition with introduction and detailed commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary, a lexicon preserved in several papyrus fragments with glosses taken from Greek, Greek dialects and“foreign languages”, especially Near-Eastern languages. In the entries many historians, periegetes, mythographers of Hellenistic time are quoted. The Oxyrhynchus Glossary is a unique document for the history of Greek lexicography as well as for the study of the relationship between Greek and non-Greek languages and the problems related to linguistic exchanges in the Near Eastern areas.



Francesca Schironi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Frontmatter1
Table of Contents9
1. Introduction11
2. The Manuscript15
3. Content18
4. Dating and Origin23
5. Near Eastern Glosses and the Problem of their Acquisition30
6. The Oxyrhynchus Glossary and Greek Glossography38
7. Authorship53
8. Edition63
9. Commentary84
10. Conclusions142