12-20-2008, 03:28 PM
The title of this topic says it all: the Neue Pauly is, except for one intentional mistake, a monument of erudition, and I have never found an error in it. Until today: there is an entry for Olba, and there is an entry for Diokaisareia - which is a bit too much, because this is one and the same city.
And since I am now pedantically showing off my knowledge: compare that printing blunder in the second edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, where the entry on "athletics" should refer to a book called Die antike Leibesübungen ("ancient body exercises"), but actually refers to Liebesübungen ("love exercises").
And since I am now pedantically showing off my knowledge: compare that printing blunder in the second edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, where the entry on "athletics" should refer to a book called Die antike Leibesübungen ("ancient body exercises"), but actually refers to Liebesübungen ("love exercises").