The Irish Times

First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian era ‘spares no blushes’

Victorian attempts to veil the meanings of crude ancient Greek words are set to be brushed away by a new dictionary 23 years in the making. It is the first to take a fresh look at the language in ...
CBC.ca

English dictionary of ancient Greek gets a vulgar update complete with F-bombs

For the past hundred or so years, classics students who looked up the ancient Greek verb χέζω in a commonly used English dictionary would find it modestly translated as "Ease oneself, do one's need." ...
Jezebel

New Translation of Ancient Greek Puts Cock Sucking Back Where It Belongs: In the Dictionary

A new ancient Greek-to-English dictionary 23 years in the making, the first written since 1889, has done away with Victorian niceties and just said the damn thing. “While Liddell and Scott defined ...
The Economist

A controversial Greek dictionary

IN ANCIENT times, the Athenians dismissed northern Greeks as boorish and backward. Yet there is still a north-south divide: metropolitans in the south these days tend to view people in Salonika, the ...
IFLScience

First New English-Ancient Greek Dictionary Since Victorian Period “Spares No Blushes” This Time

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