The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is the standard one-volume encyclopedia in English of topics relating to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or (traditionally) encyclopædia,[1] is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The ancient Greek world circa 550 BC Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history which lasted for around one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ...
It was first published in 1949. A second edition followed in 1970, edited by the late Nicholas G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard, and a third edition in 1996 edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, which in revised form (2003) is the current edition (as of 2006). The Third edition was also available on CD-ROM, but is partly incompatible with more recent versions of Windows and has not been revised or re-released. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond (November 14, 1907 - March 24, 2001) was a British historian - teaching at Cambridge and Bristol - who specialized on Greece and Macedonia. ... Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) was a British historian specializing in ancient history, notable for editing the Oxford Classical Dictionary and for his many books. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
The OCD's 6,000 articles cover everything from the daily life of the ancient Greeks and Romans, to their geography, religion, and their historical figures. The OCD includes comprehensive references to sources and recent scholarly publications.
See also
Pauly-Wissowa, the comprehensive multivolume classical encyclopedia, published in German and English.
Pauly-Wissowa is the name commonly used for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1894ff, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship. ...
External links
Oxford catalog entry for OCD
Full edition ISBN 0-19-860641-9
Abridged edition Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization ISBN 0-19-860165-4 (hb), ISBN 0-19-860958-2 (pb)
The OCD's 6,000 articles cover everything from the daily life of the ancient Greeks and Romans, to their geography, religion, and their historical figures.
It is difficult to speak of dictionaries without recalling the notorious definition for lexicographer in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge..." Johnson's definition is disingenuous, a statement rendered piquant by its inapplicability to himself.
Dictionary of the Khazars exists in two editions, "male" and "female," and to that extent challenges not only preconceptions of the dictionary form, but also of broader procedures governing book design and publishing, and of readers' consumption of texts.
Therefore, in their dictionaries the Khazars paid particular attention to mastering these two parts of Adam's body, and it is believed that they even succeeded, but did not have enough time for the other parts.
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