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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...

The history of dictionaries of Ancient Greek rests on a venerable and multifaceted tradition, which over the centuries has led dictionaries themselves to assume strikingly different forms. We have testimonies from as far back as the fifth century BC, telling of Athenian boys intent on understanding and translating Homer at school. At that time, translating the language in which the lines of poems such as the Iliad and the Odyssey were written—an unfamiliar language far-removed from the customary
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