| Title: | Philology in an Electronic Age |
| Citable URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10427/42688 |
| Author: | Crane, Gregory; Bamman, David; Babeu, Alison |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Citation: | Crane, Gregory, David Bamman, and Alison Babeu. "Philology in an Electronic Age." 2007. Tufts University. Digital Collections and Archives. Medford, MA. Available from Tufts Digital Library, Digital Collections and Archives, Medford, MA. http://hdl.handle.net/10427/42688 |
| Rights: | http://dca.tufts.edu/ua/access/rights-creator.html |
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Abstract: This paper considers two questions, one broad and thus more a series of further questions, the other more practical and with a particular suggestion for action. This paper emerges from a July 2002 conference about lexica and few would be willing to argue that classicists could not improve upon the foundations left to us by Liddell, Scott, Jones, and the others who labored on our shared Greek-English Lexicon. But simply because we could improve upon what we already have does not tell us what we should build now. We do not need a better nineteenth-century lexicon. We do not even need the best possible twentieth-century lexicon. We need to develop lexicographic resources to serve non-lexicographic readers of the twenty-first century.