Classics

Greek and Latin Language

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Greek language
• Latin language

Dictionaries and Lexicons

Bauer, Johannes B., and Anneliese Felber. A reverse index of patristic Greek. Graz: Institut für Ökumenische Theologie und Patrologie an der Universität Graz, 1983. JFD 90-9963.

Chantraine, Pierre. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: histoire des mots. Paris: Klincksieck, 1968-80. *R-RCI 75-2564.

Cunliffe, Richard John. A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1963]. D-14 8567.

Danker, Frederick William, ed. A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2000. *R-*YIE 01-10785.

Glare, P. G. W. Oxford Latin dictionary. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982. *R-RDG 83-1077.

Lampe, G. W. H. A patristic Greek lexicon. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1976. *R-RCH 78-248.

Lewis, Charleton. A Latin dictionary. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1975. *R-RDG 77-2386 and JFF 92-2013.

Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. 10th ed. Revised by Henry Stuart Jones with Roderick McKenzie and others. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1996. *R-RCH 96-15743.

Maltby, Robert. Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies. Leeds: F. Cairns, 1991. JFD 91-3868.

Neal, Bill. Gardener's Latin: a lexicon. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. JFC 92-2933.

Sophocles, E.A. Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100). F. Ungar Pub. Co., [1957]. *RR-RCH.

Souter, Alexander. A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1964]. *RR- RDG 72-1677.

Grammar

Allen, Joseph. Allen and Greenough's new Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar. New Rochelle, NY: Caratzas Brothers, 1983. *R-RDO 85-2900.

Blass, F., and A. Debrunner. A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature. A translation and revision of the 9th-10th German ed., incorporating supplementary notes of A. Debrunner, by Robert W. Funk. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [1961]. F-10 7134.

Denniston, J.D. The Greek Particles. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1954. RCO.

Ehrlich, Eugene. Amo, amas, amat and more: how to use Latin to your own advantage and to the astonishment of others. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. JFD 85-3809.

Gignac, Francis T. A Grammar of the Greek Papyri of the Roman and Byzantine Periods. Milano: Istituto editoriale cisalpino-La Goliardica, 1976-. JFL 77-422.

Goodwin, William Watson. Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1890. RCO.

Kühner, Raphael. Ausfuhrliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache. Hannover, 1869-72. RCO.

Sihler, Andrew. New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. *R-RCO 95-682.

Smyth, Herbert Weir. Greek grammar. Revised by Gordon M. Messing. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press [1973, c1956]. JFD 98-1803.

Threatte, Leslie. Grammar of Attic Inscriptions. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1980-1996. JFE 99-4392.

Wheelock, Frederick [sic] M. Wheelock's Latin grammar. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1992. JFE 94-4210.

Language

Buck, C.D. The Greek Dialects. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [1955]. *RR-RCS.

Branyon, Richard A. Latin phrases and quotations. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997. Pub. Cat. 97-10211.

Denniston, J.D. The Greek Prose Style. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952. RCB.

Hammond, Mason. Latin: a historical and linguistic handbook. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. *R-RDB 76-7554.

Palmer, L. R. The Greek language. London: Bristol, 1996. *R-RC 98-6516.

Palmer. L. R. The Latin language. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. D-18 3898.

Stone, Jon R. Latin for the illiterati: exorcizing the ghosts of a dead language. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pub. Cat. 96-10596.