Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Classical Greek

by Karl Feyerabend

Book Overview

A convenient reference for writers, students, and businesspeople;anyone who needs the right word at the right time. Poetry, prose, and a nine-letter pizza toping . . . When you're looking for a word,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887290817
• ISBN13: 9780887290817
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent dictionary!

This is an excellent dictionary. All biblical greek original words I need to find were there. I'm working in an English book translation into Portuguese where author references to many greek terms, but not written in original greek. By using this dictionary, I was able to find the original greek word he was talking about and could include it in footnote references. Also, the dictionary considers accentuation (not all dictionaries have this information) which is so important for pronunciation purposes.

Very good, if you do not expect a Cessna Centurion to be a B-52

Some people when they write a review seem not to take into account the purpose of the book. This book does not intend to compare with Pierre Chantraine's Dictionnare Étymologique de la Langue Grecque-l'histoire des mots.... As a reviewer seems to think. So, within its scope, it has its place and plays its role very well! It could, I agree, be a little bit bulkier and include some extra information in the form of tables, and so on, as other good Langenscheidt publications do. But it is worth the name of the publisher, within its range and purpose.

Perfect for what it is!

I gave this pocket size dictionary a rating of ten because in its category that what it is. A Yugo gets a rating of ten when measured up against other inexpensive, pocketsize cars for beginners. It would be of little use to compare it to a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. In the same manner it would be of little use to compare this pocketsize, handy, inexpensive, dictionary to the Liddel-Scott-Jones Lexicon. I believe the first paragraph of the preface sums it up, and I quote it here now: "The Pocket-Dictionary is not intended to compete with any of the larger Lexicons, but as it contains all the words which appear in the authors commonly read in schools, and also those of the Greek New Testament, it will perhaps prove useful to beginners, and may also lend occaisonal service to more advanced students when they are unable, or disinclined, to look up words in a more extensive work. At any rate it has the advantage of cheapness." I find it useful in my work translating Appian, and will usually look up a word it in before using the LSJ Lexicon.