Hansen P.A. (ed.) Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Vol. 3: Π-Σ

Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 2005. — XXXIII, 404 S. — (Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, 11-3). — ISBN: 978-3-11-017852-4.Hesychius’ lexicon is undoubtedly the most important Greek dictionary to survive from antiquity. It provides the only evidence for the existence of a large number of rare words as well as crucial information on the meanings, dialects, and usage of others, not to mention numerous citations of lost classical literature. It is also very difficult to edit, being a huge work surviving only in a single, highly problematic manuscript. Kurt Latte began work on his edition as a young man in 1914 and left only two volumes when he died half a century later (Α-Δ published in 1953 and Ε-Ο published posthumously in 1966). Peter Hansen then spent a further 17 years on this volume, and the fourth was finally completed by Hansen and Ian Cunningham in 2009. In 2017 Cunningham published a a revision of Latte’s 1953 first volume.