Homeric Reference Grammars
Homeric Greek is not school Attic: an Ionic base with Aeolic residues, archaic forms, and a formulaic morphology that ordinary grammars leave aside. Two English books open that dialect from opposite directions — Monro's desk grammar of epic morphology and syntax, organized in 405 numbered sections, and Pharr's course that begins with the Iliad's opening words and carries the student through Book One. These are modern books about the language, not ancient grammatical works; for Dionysius Thrax, scholia, and lexica, see the Grammar domain.
A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect
Open the machinery behind Homer's music. Why can an augment vanish? How does a particle turn the thought? Where does a lost digamma still press on the hexameter? Across 405 numbered sections, Monro follows the epic dialect from shape-shifting stems to the architecture of the sentence, then into the metre itself.
Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners
Begin with μῆνις—wrath—and head for Olympus. Pharr turns the whole first book of the Iliad into a beginner's course: its opening words arrive in Lesson I; by Lesson XIII the poem itself is on the page; and Lesson LXXVII reaches the laughter of the gods. Paradigms, exercises, commentary, vocabulary, and a reference grammar travel with you.