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The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (GE), referred to by some as BrillDAG, is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca (GI). With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century...

Why another ancient Greek lexicon in English, and why one based on an existing modern Italian one? Why not rely exclusively on the dictionary of Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon? When Brill asked the three of us in 2010 to undertake the editing of an English version of the Greek-Italian dictionary of Franco Montanari—Vocabolario della lingua greca, then in its second edition—we had not yet fully reckoned with the fact that the original “Liddell and Scott,” later
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