The Thesaurus linguae Latinae: Lexicography Past and Future with Amy Koenig
Nov 11, 2020
Amy Koenig, 2020-21 SCS/NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Thesaurus, will present an introduction to the history and potential future of this “treasury of the Latin language,” and guide attendees through the construction and use of its articles.
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The TLL aims to document the development and meaning for every word written in Latin from the earliest extant sources to late antiquity. A scrap of a child’s writing exercise or a graffito scrawled on a wall holds as much weight in the construction of an entry as the most “canonical” literary text; and a researcher, in offering their interpretation of a word, provides the reader with tools to formulate their own opinion of the structure presented.
Based in a Munich palace, with over a century of painstaking work behind it already and more still to come, the Thesaurus is at once seemingly old-fashioned—written entirely in Latin, with an archive still kept on paper slips—and uniquely able to grow and change together with the field of classics itself. Its inclusivity and open subjectivity make it one of the most paradoxically modern of lexica, and the new possibilities of the digital age present an exciting opportunity for the development of the project.
Amy Koenig, 2020-21 SCS/NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Thesaurus, will present an introduction to the history and potential future of this “treasury of the Latin language,” and guide attendees through the construction and use of its articles