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Subject: From Alexandria  to Babylon: Schironi
 

	
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Title: From Alexandria  to Babylon 
Subtitle: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic  Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus
Glossary  (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812)
 
Series Title: Sozomena 4  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
	   http://www.mouton-publishers.com
	

Book URL: http://degruyter.de/cont/fb/at/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110206937-1 


Author: Francesca Schironi

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110206937 Pages: 176 Price: Europe EURO 58.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110206937 Pages: 176 Price: U.S. $ 78.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America


Abstract:

This book provides the first full edition and commentary of the Oxyrhynchus
Glossary (POxy 1802 and 4812). This is a unique document both for the
history of Greek lexicography and for the study of the cultural and
linguistic exchange between the Greeks and the "others" in the Hellenistic
near East. The fragment contains a fully alphabetized glossary with lemmas
defined as "Persian," "Babylonian," and "Chaldaean," as well as lemmas
taken from Greek dialects or common Greek. The entries are rich in
quotations from ancient authorities including Berossus, Apollodorus and
Erasistratus. This glossary had never been analyzed in depth previously.
Francesca Schironi provides a comprehensive introduction and commentary
that places the Oxyrhynchus Glossary into the wider context of Greek
lexicography and scholarship, discusses its interest for non-Greek
languages and the problems related to linguistic exchanges in the Near
Eastern areas, and shows the uniqueness and value of this document. The
Oxyrhynchus glossary and this study will be of interest to classicists,
papyrologists, comparative philologists, and scholars interested in the
history of Greek lexicography and scholarship.

Published by de Gruyter 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Lexicography

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Akkadian (akk)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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