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Professor James Diggle in Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology

Epic dictionary re-defines Ancient Greek including the words which made the Victorians blush

27 May 2021

For 23 years a team from Cambridge’s Faculty of Classics has scoured Ancient Greek literature for meanings to complete the Cambridge Greek Lexicon ...

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Dictionary

Defining words

01 Sep 2007

Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries...

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