The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek
Cover of the Italian 3rd edition
Author	Franco Montanari
Original title	GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca
Language	Italian, English, Modern Greek, German
Published	1995 (1st edition, Loescher), 2015 (Brill Publishers)
Publication place	Italy, United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	2431
ISBN	9789004193185

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is an English language dictionary of Ancient Greek, translated, with the addition of some entries and improvements, from the third Italian edition of Franco Montanari's GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca. It's mostly a new lexicographical work, not directly based on any previous dictionary. It has about 140,000 entries over 2500 pages.

The Italian third edition has been published in 2013 (first edition in 1995), a Modern Greek translation has been published in 2013, and the English edition has been published by Brill in 2015, edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, and a German translation is to be published in July 2023 by De Gruyter. There is also an online version, which can also be subscribed by universities and other institutions.

References

^ Panagiotis 2018
Montanari, Franco (2023). GD – Wörterbuch Altgriechisch-Deutsch. Product page on degruyter.com. De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110183924. Retrieved 2022-12-27. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

Bibliography

Panagiotis Filos (2018) The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (review) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Franco Montanari 2015 video interview, with English subtitles, about the English edition

External links

Official page of the English print edition.
Words in Progress project, Supplementary Lexicon of Ancient Greek, Directed by Franco Montanari, Serena Perrone

Greek language

Origin and genealogy

Periods

Proto-Greek (c. 2900–1600 BC)
Mycenaean Greek (c. 1600–1100 BC)
Ancient Greek (c. 800–300 BC)
Koine Greek (c. 300 BC–AD 330)
Medieval Greek (c. 330–1453)
Modern Greek (since 1453)

Varieties

Ancient	Central Aeolic Mycenaean Arcadocypriot East Attic Ionic Homeric West Doric Northwest Achaean Epirote Locrian Macedonian Pamphylian
Koine	Hellenistic Koine Jewish Koine Greek
Modern	Demotic Katharevousa Cappadocian Misthiotika Cretan Cypriot Himariote Constantinople Italiot Greco/Calabrian Griko/Apulian Maniot Mariupolitan Pontic Romano-Greek Tsakonian Yevanic Greco-Australian

Phonology

Grammar

Writing systems

Literature

Promotion and study

Other

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