Horses for courses: Plato's vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon.
The Onomasticon by Julius Pollux is more than just a word-hoard: Pollux's work actively mediates, through lexicographic appraisal, the cultural assets and anxieties of the Second Sophistic. In the light of the ongoing debate among the Imperial intellectuals and specifically Platonists about the valu...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 48 - 58 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2023
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