All the Greek Verbs

by Nino Marinone

All the Greek Verbs has established itself as an indispensable guide for all learners of Greek. In a clear and simple format, the book sets out over 13,000 verb forms, which are listed alphabetically, and referred to the verbs from which they derive. Poetic and dialect forms are differentiated and grammatical tables set out standard endings and inflexions, making it easy for the student of Greek to navigate their way through the language.

Genres: Linguistics, Reference, Nonfiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

WhenI was an undergraduate in Classics, I bought N. Marinone's All the Greek Verbs thinking that it would be an indispensible resource for my studies. It then did little but gather dust for most of my studies, but when a verb form was the only thing standing in the way of completing a translation and was driving me to madness, the book proved indispensable.

All the Greek Verbs is a English-language cover around Marinone's Italian-language work Tutti i verbi graeci. It lists over 13,000 forms alphabetically along with their tense, mood, and person, and their dictionary form. There are also several pages of tables which show the regular endings of -o, -ao, -eo, and the few types of -mi verbs.

Greek doesn't have so many verbs that one would be turning to such a guide very often, but there are several tricky forms which I never tend to remember. Resources like Perseus wordlinks are faster to use and have greater coverage, but require an Internet connection and are hard on one's eyes. I don't often reach a point where I will absolutely need a work like All the Greek Verbs (I also bought Lidell & Scott's Greek lexicon and found it overkill for undergrads), but when I do it's a lifesaver. A vital work for classicists.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful book if you are out to determine an obscure form of a Greek word. Next to the observed form, the book gives an analysis of mood, person, tense and voice as well as the lemma form.
Because the English version is a photocopy of the original Italian book, some comments are hard to decipher.
A book every classicist should own!

[Scott Zuke · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most wonderfully obscure book ever. It is the answer to the riddle: what is the most utterly useless thing in the world that remains nevertheless indispensable (if you're a scholar of Ancient Greek, anyway...). Lousy riddle, but fantastic book.