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The Oxford Classical Dictionary (CD-ROM)
Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (January 4, 2001) | ISBN-10: 0192687670 | CD | exe | 149 MB
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Over a quarter of a century has elapsed since the last revision to the
Oxford Classical Dictionary, longer even than the 21 years between the
first and second editions. As noted in the introduction to the current
edition, those years have seen a phenomenal growth in classical
scholarship, indeed, in all the humanistic disciplines, and an awakening
of interest in new theories and subjects long ignored. Evidence of
these changes can be seen in the titles of some of the approximately 800
new articles: Homosexuality, Women in Philosophy, Abortion, Class
Struggle, and Literary Theory and Classical Languages.
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Most articles show signs of revision and reworking, often extensive.
Bibliographies have been updated as well, even in those articles (mostly
short ones) reprinted without change. The editors have also made an
effort to make the work more accessible to the layperson. Many of the
new articles are thematic articles of general interest: Earthquakes;
Shipwrecks, Ancient; and Fishing, for example. Contributors have been
instructed to limit explanations that require knowledge of Greek or
Latin, and although a number do appear, they are generally related to
very specific details and do not compromise the comprehension of the
articles in which they are found. As with the second edition, there is
no general index, but there are rather generous cross-references as well
as asterisks next to terms for which a separate article exists.
Users
of the previous editions will be happy to know that the new edition
continues to function well as a tool for identification and for the
location of much of what factual information is known of the ancient
world. Many of the new articles are for specific individuals, places, or
things, from Acanthus (a Greek colony in Chalcidice) to Zeuxis
Philathes (a Greek physician of the Augustan age). The level of
scholarship remains uncompromising. Bibliographies, for example,
consistently list relevant primary texts and often include non-English
secondary sources. Certain discussions may not be clear to every reader,
as in the account under Calender, Roman of how the 10-month calendar
acquired extra months, which omits any explanation of how Quintilus came
to be July. An effort has been made in this edition to list persons
under family name and under linguistically correct forms even when other
forms may be more familiar, so that Julius Caesar is under Iulius
Caesar, Gaius and Scipio Africanus under Cornelius Scipio Africanus (the
elder), Publius, though adequate cross-references exist. Occasionally,
an effort to move the discussion of a specific term to a more general
article has produced a blind reference; the reader, for example, is told
under effatus to see Augures, but in that article the term effatus is
not mentioned.
Still, despite occasional difficulties, this is a
work that makes a fascinating world of learning accessible to a broad
audience. The editor, in thanking the contributors for their generosity,
notes that "the pressures of university life are now in the direction
of selfish productivity at the level of pure research." This work,
though thoroughly up to date, does seem like the product of another era,
when the gap between what scholars wrote and the rest of us read was
less stark. It should continue to be the single most heavily used book
on classical studies in the reference collections of academic libraries,
and it deserves a place in all but the smallest public libraries as
well as in high-school libraries where classical studies are at all a
part of the curriculum. --This text refers to an out of print or
unavailable edition of this title.
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