Grammar Charts

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Hello!

Does anyone have a nice visual chart for all ancient Greek verbs? I am trying to put them all up on my wall and am struggling with layout ideas.

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Ancient Greek is a lot of different periods, so it matters which one you’re talking about.

For Homer, this is the current version of the chart that I’ve made for my own reference: https://archive.org/details/iliad-ii/page/480/mode/2up (The page number may change a little in the future.)

Here is Monro’s chart for Homeric conjugations: https://archive.org/details/grammarofhomeric00monruoft/page/n29/mode/2up

For -μι verbs, you’re mostly dealing with compounds formed with prepositions added on the front of a few verbs like ἵστημι, ἵημι, and τίθημι. εἰμί is its own thing, but in Homer the copula is usually omitted.

For participles, the inflections are the same as the inflections of certain nouns or adjectives like γέρων and πᾶς.

The principal parts are not really very regular in the sense of being derivable from the present-tense. You have to learn the principal parts of common verbs like φέρω.

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Abbott and Mansfield has quite a lot of nice charts if I remember; you could photocopy and enlarge these.

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I did some digging to try to figure out how this was available. It looks like it was originally published as a complete book, Abbott and Mansfield, A primer of Greek grammar, and also as shorter pieces. The textkit book collection doesn’t have it in any form. There are reprint editions available on amazon, but usually those people are scammers. I could only find some of the pieces of it online:

Mansfield, Syntax - https://archive.org/details/aprimergreekgra00mansgoog/mode/2up

Abbott and Mansfield, Accidence - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100851787

Greenstock, exercises - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100737894

I hadn’t known what “accidence” meant and had to look it up – it’s basically a synonym for inflection.

Here’s an example of a page showing an inflection table: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0015633423&view=1up&seq=76

I assume all of this is for Attic.

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The best tables that I know of were published in Goodwin’s grammar, which the publishers/author adapted (made somewhat worse, especially in typeface) for Smyth.

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These might be helpful:

https://classics.uchicago.edu/people/helma-dik/nifty-greek-handouts

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Is this what you’re referring to? https://archive.org/details/greekgrammar00gooduoft/page/96/mode/2up

It goes on for about 25 pages, so although it’s very complete, I doubt that it’s what the OP wants. They want something that can be made into a wall chart.