Greek Gods

There are many publications of the Greek dictionary. The first one known is the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology which was originally published in 1844 (under a slightly different name) and then in 1849. This dictionary is an encyclopedia and biographical dictionary. This dictionary is written in three different volumes and consists of 3,700 pages. It was edited by William Smith. This set of dictionaries is a good addition to the Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and Greek and Roman Geography (published in 1854). The dictionaries list thirty five authors and Smith himself was also an author of some of the definitions and articles. The authors of the dictionaries were scholars mainly from Oxford, Cambridge, the Rugby School, the University of Bonn, as well as other universities. There was a 1863 abridgement of it, which is a short dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Other editions of the Greek and Roman Dictionaries were: The 1980 edition, 1878 edition, the 1875 edition (almost 50% of this one is the Roman articles), and the 1870 edition.

The Greek and Roman Geography series included the cities, towns, regions, countries, and all of the geographical features known at that time. There are 2 volumes of this dictionary and cover the geographical features which were known in Greek and Roman literature, and this included those which were mentioned in the Bible. There was a new reissue of this dictionary distributed in 2005.

The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is written in the English and was first published in 1842. There were many revised editions after that an up until 1890. There were over 1 million words in this edition. This dictionary covered the religion, architecture, warfare, daily life, law, and other similar subjects.

The Greek Spanish Dictionary was the last link to the long chain of European tradition of general dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language. The first link to this dictionary could be considered the Henricus Stephanus’s Thesaurus Graecae Linguae, which was published in Paris, in 1572. The predecessor of this dictionary was the editions by Liddell- Scott- Jones;s which was released from 1925 until 1940. This project for this dictionary takes place in the Department of Classics of the Institute of Philosophy at the CSIC , in Madrid, Spain. They have received funds there from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to make this possible. The work for this dictionary began as just aimed at the interest of the students but it soon became more than that. There seemed to be a need to translate the Greek findings into Spanish so others could also read about them and learn from them. The revision of this dictionary incorporated the Mycenaean Greek and Partristic Lexicon, plus the personal names and the locations in the Greek areas. Because of this there has been many new words added to the dictionaries as each new edition is released.