THE ANCIENT GREEK LEXICON PUBLISHED AFTER 23 YEARS IN THE MAKING

Cambridge University Press has recently published the Cambridge Greek Lexicon after 23 years of work by the university's classics faculty. 

The group was led by the lexicon's editor-in-chief, James Diggle, a professor at Queen's College who taught Greek and Latin at the University of Cambridge for 16 years.  

This renowned group of scholars worked to produce old and contemporary definitions of some of the oldest fragments of the ancient Greek language.  One of the group's primary goals was to create definitions that were highly legible and comprehensible to break with the dense and unintelligible English definitions of ancient Greek in the lexicon's past.  

The process of forging these contemporary English definitions required the team to completely reread the entire canon of ancient Greek literature from Homer to the 2nd century AD.   

The scholars then shifted through the Greek alphabet's 24 characters on a digital database to create "a clear, modern and accessible guide" for these archaic words, providing clarity for the various valances they acquire when used in different contexts by different writers,