Students who plunge deeply into the study of icons — including languages used on icons such as Church Slavic and Greek — frequently find themselves consulting Lexicons/Dictionaries of Classical, New Testament and Septuagint Greek. That category of severe iconoholics will be interested to know that the standard lexicon of ancient Greek since the 19th century — the Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon of H.G. Liddell and Robert Scott — has finally been replaced.
This is good news for a number reasons, one of which is that the new replacement — the Cambridge Greek Lexicon — no longer obscures the meaning of a great many Greek words with archaic definitions. The new Lexicon (editor James Diggle) uses blunt and clear explanations — which of course include lots of plain and easily-understood “four-letter words” when discussing any Greek terms having to do with sexual matters. So searchers of the lexicon will no longer have to try to puzzle out the often evasive “Victorian English” definitions found in Liddell and Scott.
The new dictionary consists of two volumes and 1,000 pages. It is published by Cambridge University Press — and is currently available in hardcover at a pre-order price under $100 (American).
A reader (thanks, Steven!) kindly sent me this link, which gives more information:
ICONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION 