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The project was the brainchild of John Chadwick, who is best known for his work with Michael Ventris on the decipherment of the Linear B script.  

John was also deeply involved in lexicographic research: he worked on a number of projects, including the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1946-52), and he was one of the scholars supervising the Supplement to the large Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell and Scott (1979-93). His thoughts on Greek lexicography can be found in his book Lexicographica Graeca (1996).  In 1998, he described the need for a new intermediate-level lexicon in an article for "The Times".

The project was launched in 1998, with Dr Anne Thompson as Editor. Anne was a student of John Chadwick, and worked with him on a number of lexicographic projects, including the Liddell-Scott Supplement.

Professor James Diggle was appointed as Principal Reader, and Chair of the Advisory Committee, to work in close contact with the writing team, reading and commenting on all pages of the lexicon as it is written. More recently he has also joined the writing team himself. Fund-raising and administration were led by Professor Pat Easterling, the first Chair of the Management Committee, who was succeeded in 2009 by Professor Richard Hunter.

In 1999, Anne held discussions with Professor Gregory Crane of the Perseus Project, which have led to the work on an electronic databank of lexicographic slips, designed by Professor Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and Dr Bruce Fraser, who joined the project as assistant editor in 2000.

In 2002 Pauline Hire, formerly Classics Editor at Cambridge University Press, was appointed as project co-ordinator. In 2004, Dr Oliver Simkin joined us as  an assistant editor, followed in 2007 by Dr Patrick James. Dr Simkin has now moved on to take up a research post in Denmark.

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