I haven’t looked through these books yet, but I’m wondering if other people have. Monro’s grammar book has about 400 something pages… I think it’s a reference grammar book, but I don’t know…
Homer’s Iliad, first three books and selections; ed. for the use of schools, by J. R. Sitlington Sterrett.
The first six books of Homer’s Iliad. With introd., commentary, and vocabulary for the use of schools, by Thomas D. Seymour.
grammar of the Homeric dialect, by D. B. Monro
I paged through it briefly on my last trip to the university library. It does not appear to be a grammar in the same sense as the grammar section of Clyde Pharr’s Homeric Greek. I think it assumes you know Attic Greek and just goes more deeply into Homeric language. I will look at this more closely in the next month and get back to this board with more information. Since eventually I’m going to outgrow Pharr, I intend to scan in Monro sometime this year.
Homer’s Iliad, first three books and selections; ed. for the use of schools, by J. R. Sitlington Sterrett. The first six books of Homer’s Iliad. With introd., commentary, and vocabulary for the use of schools, by Thomas D. Seymour.
Those sound good, especially the Seymour. But what I like better is Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer’s Iliad (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903). My copy is unfortunately too marked up to scan. This book has “the equivalent of nearly eight books” and includes episodes and whole books from later in the epic, basically the most important parts of the epic. The grammatical appendix doesn’t set out paradigms as fully as Pharr and only covers syntax which is different from Attic Greek.
Kerastes
Thanks for the reply. So how does Seymour’s grammar/syntax book compare with Monro’s book?
A few observations, just from skimming:
Seems to me that Monro is worth making freely available.
Kerastes
There are two versions of this, one “for the use of schools” and the other (presumably fuller) in the College Series of Greek Authors, the same series as Seymour’s Introduction…Homer, Plato’s Apology and Crito, and Perrin’s Homer’s Odyssey, Books V-VIII available on Textkit. By the way, I’ve located a copy of Perrin’s Odyssey, Books I-IV if anyone’s interested. He also editied Books I-IV and IX-XII of the Odyssey (in one volume) with complete vocabulary of Odyssey I-XII.
By Seymour is something called Homeric Vocabulary. Anyone know anything about this?
Kerastes
What’s the copyright? That’d be very cool, to have the full Perrin set.
Here’s the info from the card catalogue:
Author: Homer.
Title: Homer’s Odyssey, books I-IV; edited on the basis of the Ameis-Hentze edition, by B. Perrin …
Series: College series of Greek authors
Published: Boston, U.S.A., Ginn & Company, 1889.
Physical Description: iv, 229 p. 20 cm.
Notes: “The text is that of Dindorf, revised by Hentze, Teubner series, Leipsic, 1884.”–Pref.
I’ll be glad to scan it in the next few months. Perrin doesn’t seem to have edited Books IX-XII in the College Series, but there’s an edition with shorter notes “for the use of schools”.
Kerastes
Hello,
I have borrowed today P. A. Draper, Iliad, book 1 (Michigan, 2002). It looks really nice, I guess it goes in the sense of Pharr’s book. There is an introduction, and then Draper goes into the first whole book. I have not still begun reading it, but it seems to me that almost every word is explained (at least at the beginning). There are also around 20 pages of vocabulary at the end. There is a paperback edition, quite cheap. It seems quite reader friendly, especially for beginners. Sadly, it has just been printed, so we must wait 75 years for the copyright to expire! 
I HAVE ONE OF THE BOOKS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. IT’S :
The First Six Books of Homer’s Iliad with Introduction, Commentary, and Vocabulary for the use of schools, by Thomas D. Seymour. It was my mother’s book which she used when she was a student at Boston University in the early 1940’s. I have other of her textbooks, but havent had the time to go through them yet.