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Eleanor Dickey

Author of Ancient Greek scholarship : a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period

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About the Author

Eleanor Dickey is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter

Works by Eleanor Dickey

Ancient Greek scholarship : a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period (2007) 129 copies, 1 review

Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World (2016) 92 copies

An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose (2016) 70 copies

Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire (2018) 47 copies

Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World: Extracts from the Ancient Colloquia (2017) 33 copies

Colloquial and Literary Latin (2010) — Editor — 29 copies

New Selected Odes of Pindar (Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries) (1991) 20 copies

Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius (2002) 18 copies

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) (2012) 11 copies

Greek Forms of Address: From Herodotus to Lucian (1996) 8 copies

Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek: A Lexicon and Analysis (2023) 7 copies

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 2, Colloquium Harleianum, Colloquium Montepessulanum, Colloquium Celtis, and Fragments (2015) 4 copies

O dee ree PIE : the vocative problems of Latin words ending in -eus [article] (2002) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (2009) — Contributor — 65 copies

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (2010) — Contributor — 57 copies

The Language of the Papyri (2010) — Contributor — 32 copies

Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change? (2016) — Contributor — 15 copies

Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies (Oxford Linguistics) (2004) — Contributor — 7 copies

Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies

Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras : Greek, Latin, and Jewish (2019) — Contributor — 4 copies

Laws and Rules in Indo-European (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies

Transactions of the American Philological Association Volume 131 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1967-04-09
Gender: female
Occupations: classicist
linguist
Organizations: University of Reading
Awards and honors: British Academy (Fellow)
Relationships: Probert, Philomen (wife)
Nationality: USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Colby_Glass 43 reviews

Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatiacl Treatises, from Their ... Association Classical Resources Series) by Eleanor Dickey

Explains the process and vocabulary of classical philology. Many helpful lists included.

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Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World (Honorable Mention – Classics – 2017)

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Works: 13
Also by: 9
Members: 469
Popularity: #52,470
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 47
Languages: 3

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