Category Archives: Ancient Greek
New online version of Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ)
Following five years of hard work, “The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is proud to announce the release of a new online version of Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ), the premier lexicon for classical Greek.” Subscribers have access to the full LSJ. But even … Continue reading
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The Use of Myth in History: Ken Dowden
Monsters exist in order to be defeated and, preferably, slain. (134) Ken Dowden’s The Uses of Greek Mythology (Routledge, 1992) provides an excellent guide to the ways in which Greek myth was used to construct Greek historiography that was set in the more remote … Continue reading
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Homer’s Odyssey and the Old Testament: Bruce Louden
Bruce Louden asks a good question (and gives one very good answer to it) in the ‘Introduction’ to his recent book, Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 5: Why do commentators usually omit consideration of the substantial parallels … Continue reading
