Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary Revised Edition

The price was right and it turned out to be the perfect addition to my study of Greek with Athenaze.

this is probably the only good new ancient greek dictionary that you can buy. its easy to read and use. irregular verb have their principal parts given, unless theyre in the 100 most common list which is in the back. theres also a english to greek section for the truly awesome among us.

Good reference, especially for the new student or one who is reviewing. This is a "pocket" dictionary, and so, it does not offer much in the way of examples from literature or alternate definitions. It does have a good number of entries for alternate forms of words with direction to the more regular forms of those Greek words.Note that this is NOT a volume designe to last for many years. It is printed on the same sort of paper as you would find in a mass-distribution paper-back edition for a popular novel. At the same time, however, it's target audience is likely going to be throwing this volume in a book bag or a knapsack, carrying it around campus, and subjecting it to all the abuse that our elementary school teachers told us NOT to do with our books. It is also very reasonably priced, so that when, after a few years, you have moved on to a more specialized, comprehensive dictionary (if you stick with the subject), you will have gotten good value from the investment.If the student is looking for more in-depth definitions, etymologies and examples of usage, they should find a specialist dictionary. That, however, would represent a very significant investment.

This is a replacement copy for me -- my earlier one was lost during a move, and I didn't want to do without it. I also have the biggest and smallest Liddell and Scott ancient Greek lexica and wouldn't dream of giving them up, but even the smallest one can be heavy for day-to-day portability. This paperback dictionary is useful for looking up the basic meaning of words on the go, has more legible type, and, unlike Liddell and Scott, contains an English-to-Greek section.

I was thrown off by the word "pocket dictionary," but it is paper back sized and has most of the words I look for. A larger dictionary for Classical Greek would be unwieldy and harder to use quickly. A more complete Classic Greek dictionary would be very expensive and this "pocket" dictionary was cheap!

The book is small, so I easily hold it in one hand while writing with the other. It contains nearly all the words I try to look up. However, I am trying to read the Septuagint, and a few words I need are not in this little Morwood and Taylor. Perhaps I am being unfair: these words seem also not to be in the Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott.

Finally we have a classical Ellenic dictionary that has an English to Greek section and a complete section on numerals. Exactly why every text on the classical Greek language seems to shy away from the simple matter of counting from one to ten has always been a mystery to me, but now the point is moot. I got this book in the mail a week ago and can now toss my Langenscheidt in the trash.

This is a small page size book; almost half the page size of other oxford dictionary. And the paperback version is not suitable for a dictionary that is going to be used frequently