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From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary

By Francesca Schironi

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
3110206935, 9783110206937
LCC
PJ3075 .S45 2009
Open Library ID
OL23058968M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1431668 bytes)
Series
Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 4
Edition
1
Pages
176\202
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is an edition with introduction and detailed commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary, a lexicon preserved in several papyrus fragments with glosses taken from Greek, Greek dialects and ""foreign languages"", especially Near-Eastern languages. In the entries many historians, periegetes, mythographers of Hellenistic time are quoted. The Oxyrhynchus Glossary is a unique document for the history of Greek lexicography as well as for the study of the relationship between Greek and non-Greek languages and the problems related to linguistic exchanges in the Near Eastern areas.

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