From Alexandria to Babylon

by Francesca Schironi

This book provides the first full edition and commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (POxy 1802 and 4812). This is a unique document both for the history of Greek lexicography and for the study of the cultural and linguistic exchange between the Greeks and the "others" in the Hellenistic near East. The fragment contains a fully alphabetized glossary with lemmas defined as "Persian," "Babylonian," and "Chaldaean", as well as lemmas taken from Greek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110206935
• ISBN13: 9783110206937
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary