I thought it might be fun to see what Greek and Latin grammars, readers, lexicons and learning aids others have. Here’s my list. I’m starting with the Greek books - Latin to follow in another thread.
GREEK GRAMMARS/COMPOSITIONS
Smyth’s Greek Grammar (2)
Goodwin’s Greek Grammar (4)
Goodwin’s Elementary Greek Grammar (2)
Goodwin & Gulick’s Greek Grammar
Goodwin’s Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb
Hadley & Allen’s Greek Grammar
White’s First Greek Book (2)
White’s Beginners Greek Book
Gunion’s First Greek Grammar Accidence & Syntax
North & Hillards Greek Prose Composition
Sidgwick’s Greek Prose Compostion
Spieker’s Greek Prose Composition
Allinson’s Greek Prose Composition
Seymour’s Homeric Language and Verse
Robertson’s Short Grammar of the Greek New Testament
Nunn’s Syntax of New Testament Greek
Frost’s A Greek Primer
Whiton’s Preparation for Reading Xenophon
GREEK READERS
Goodwin’s First Four Books of Xenophon’s Anabasis
Mather & Hewitt’s Xenophon’s Anabasis Books I-IV
Minckwitz’s Homer Odyssey Book XII
Herberden’s Euripides Hecuba
Tyler’s Olynthiacs of Demosthenes
Adam’s Lysias Selected Speeches
Towle’s Plato Protagoras
Humhreys’ Aristophanes Clouds
Nicolson’s Aristophanes Plutus
Harry’s Euripides Hippolytus
Morris’s Thucydides Book I
Seymour’s Plato Aplogy & Crito
Macaulay’s Herodutus Book III
Sandys’ First Philippic and Olymthiacs
Sidgwick’s Easy Selections From Plato
Merry’s Selections From Herodotus
White’s Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles
Loebs - Homer’s Iliad Volume I & 2, Homer’s Odyssey Volumes 1 & 2, Plato’s Apology & Crito, Arrian’s Anabasis Volume 1
AIDS
Tutti Verbi
Liddell & Scott Greek Lexion
Homeric Greek Lexicon
that’s it!
jeff
LATIN GRAMMARS/COMPOSITIONS
Wheelock’s Latin 6th Edition
Latin for Americans (2)
Ecce Romani 1
Oxford Latin Course I
Oxford Latin Course II
GREEK GRAMMARS/COMPOSITIONS
Teach Yourself© Ancient Greek
AIDS
Cassel’s Latin Dictionary
Textkit 
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I am jealous of your massive and antique collection :-[
I am jealous also Jeff 
Grammars
Latin For Beginners, Dr. Benjamin L. D’Ooge (1) ;D
Cambridge Latin Course I and II
Allen and Greenough
Readers
None as yet (none needed)
Greek
Greek: An Intensive Course (Hansen and Quinn)
Learn Ancient Greek (Peter Jones)
Teach Yourself Greek (NOT the Teach Yourself series… this is a slim pale blue volume I picked up ages ago - can’t identify an author but it’s not a particularly good book anyway)
Vox Graeca (W.S. Allen)
Eurpides’ Medea (Mastronarde)
Aristophanes’ Clouds, Wasps, Peace (Henderson)
Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek
Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary
LOADS of Greek plays in various translations…
Latin
Learn Latin - Daily Telegraph Series (Peter Jones)
Teach Yourself Books: Latin (again, NOT the Teach Yourself series… or perhaps this is a very old version of the series… can’t identify an author… this is a navy blue and ochre volume, left to me by my great-uncle now deceased…)
And… Bulfinch’s Mythology - if that counts!
Latin:
M&F
Essentials of Latin Grammar by W. Michael Wilson
Wheelock’s Reader 2e
Loeb Bede in two volumes
Loeb De Bello Gallico
Oxford Pocket Dictionary
Greek:
Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones
How’s the Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones?
I find Peter Jones’ books highly witty, and I also like how they let you into the language quite painlessly. They’re probably good for the casual learner, or perhaps for those who want a ‘gentler’ introduction.
However, the books can’t go much beyond an introduction. They are not comprehensive (though to be fair, they don’t claim to be), and thus they are insufficient for the serious student. Nonetheless, I like having them on hand for a fresh perspective; my main textbook (Hansen and Quinn) tends to be very dry, and sometimes a good joke about the material is all you need to remember an obscure fact…
(inhale deeply)…
You young ‘uns take note: I’m 34. I’ve been collecting Greek books since I was about 15. Only collect the best!
Greek Grammars/Composition:
Smyth “Greek Grammar”
Abbott & Mansfield “Primer of Greek Grammar”
Goodwin & Gulick “Greek Grammar”
Curtius “A Grammar of the Greek Language” (tr. Wm Smith)
Monro “Homeric Grammar”
Pharr “Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners”
Crosby & Schaeffer “An Introduction to Greek” (my college text)
Hanson & Quinn “Intensive Greek”
Machen “New Testament Greek for Beginners”
M.H.B Marshall “Verbs, Nouns and Postpositives in Attic Prose”
North & Hillard “Greek Prose Composition”
F.G. Allinson “Greek Prose Composition”
Lewis and Skyler “Foundations for Greek Prose Composition”
Isaac Flagg “A Writer of Attic Prose”
Loebs:
Lucian, vols II, VI
Quintus Smyrnaeus “The Fall of Troy”
Achilles Tatius
Chartion “Callirhoe”
Nonnos, Dionysiaca vols I-III (mindbogglingly deranged reading)
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus, vols I-II
Iliad, vol I
Greek Anthology, vol. IV
Teubneriana
Rzach “Hesiodus Carmina”
Arrian “Anabasis” (of Alexander the Great, not Xenophon’s)
Ilias I, II edidit West (brand new)
Carmina Anacreontea
Oxford Classical Texts
Sophocles Fabulae
Aeschyli Tragoediae
Thucidides vols I-II
Herodotus vols I-II
Xenophon Historia Graeca
Other Texts
Polybii Historiae, edidit Bekker, 1844
West, “Iambi et Elegi Graeci”
“The Oxford Book of Greek Verse”
Commentaries, Dictionaries, Readers, etc.
2x Middle Liddle (one gets written in, the other not)
Cunliffe, “Dictionary of the Homeric Dialect”
Authenrieth, “A Homeric Dictionary”
Becker’s Iliad w/ notes & vocab
Kirk et al., “The Iliad: A Commentary” vols I-VI ($$$)
Tyler “Selections from the Greek Lyric Poets”
Jebb’s commentary on Antigone
Dodd’s on Euripides’ Bacchae
Elliott’s on Eur. Medea
Stanford’s “Odyssey of Homer” books A-M
West’s on Hesiod’s Theogony
West’s on Hesiod’s Works and Days
Smyth, “Greek Melic Poets”
Hopkinson, “Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period”
Campbell, “Greek Lyric Poetry”
Bryn Mawr commentaries on Books I and III of Herodotus
Barbour’s “Selections from Herodotus”
United Bible Societies’ “The Greek New Testament” with dictionary
C.E. Freeman & W.D. Lowe “A Greek Reader for Schools”
Finally, a freaky Cambridge University Press thing where some school library bound together school editions of Euripides’ “Iphigeneia at Aulis, Medea, Hecuba” and “Hercules Furens”
I have more books on Arabic grammar than I do Latin, so I will not report my Latin titles.
Such a fine list!
What year is your Curtius? I’m guessing it’s a reprint. According to Goodwin he was a real heavy hitter and brought the German works into English. Is this true? I would like to read that preface.
1878. Not a reprint. It came into the hands of one E.B. McGilvary, Bingham School, Mebaueville(??), N.C, on Aug 26th, 1879. The handwriting is exquisite.
According to Goodwin he was a real heavy hitter and brought the German works into English. Is this true? I would like to read that preface.
I have no idea what a “heavy hitter” would mean in this situation. :-\ So I cannot say. I still own it only because I like old books that smell ancient and look cool. For real work I consult Smyth.
I think you have very nice and rare book - keep it warm, safe and dry.
Sorry, that was ‘Soprano talk’. What I meant by heavy hitter is that Curtius influenced American Greek educators like Hadley and Goodwin. In a very crude way it goes something like this:
Curtius Greek Grammar >> Hadley Greek Grammar >> Goodwin Elementary Grammar >> Goodwin Greek Grammar
It was Hadley’s 1860 Greek Grammar that was largely adapted from Curtius’s Griechische Shulgrammatik.
(Young and old take note: I am 40 and have collected Greek books for only a few years.)
Grammars
Basics of Biblical Greek grammar +
Basics of Biblical Greek work book -William D. Mounce
Homeric Greek, a Book for Beginners. -Clyde Pharr
Beginning Greek, a Functional Approach, -Stephen W. Paine
Readers
A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek. -William D. Mounce
A work book for New Testament Greek (Grammar and Exegesis in First John) -Marvin R. Wilson and Chris Alex Vlachos
Greek New Testament (I guess this is not a reader, but it is Greek)
Aid
Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament -Warren C. Trencard
Hi Bert de Haan:
I see NT selections there.
It might interest you to know that we just acquired Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek by Ernest De Witt Burton.
Also - I’m almost finished with Ginn’s College Series of Greek Author’s “Selections from the Septuagint” which I find to be one of the best books in the series because of its balance of introduction, grammar, NT Greek text and vocabulary.
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How’s the Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones?
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Keep in mind that I had no prior knowledge of Greek before starting this book. I’m not very deep into it, but it’s great so far. It’s written in a lively style and directed towards adults, not Victorian schoolboys ;p Jones provides plenty of mnemonics and helpful advice for learning. I think his approach is more effective for me than a traditional introduction would be. It’s also priced very affordably.
The downside…it doesn’t cover much grammar, so I’ll try work through an intensive introduction when I’m finished. I admit that if I could spend as much time on Greek as I do now on Latin, I’d probably just start with an intensive text. But there are only so many hours in the day.
Hehe-I’m almost ashamed to reply to this post, after seeing everybody else’s answers.
Other than the books on Textkit, I own one Greek grammar (Koine/New Testament Greek, not Ancient/Classical), a very slim paperback book, copyright 2001, called A Beginner’s Reader/Grammar for New Testament Greek. I expect this book to be very helpful…after I learn New Testament Greek. 
Okay, so it doesn’t compare with the other lists of books on here, but hey, I’m young and broke…what can I say?
Keesa
Having just one Greek book is a good thing - and it’s not important how many you own - but how often you read it
I’ll second the young and broke.
Yet I feel so strong accompanied by Benjamin L. D’Ooge.
I feel a mite better after seeing these lists… I occasionally think I spend way too much time in various bookstores feeding a classics habit…
Latin
Grammar
Wheelock 3rd Edition (Course Text)
Wheelock 6th Edition (because 3 went to Edmonton…)
Workbooks to Wheelock 5 and 6 (Forgot I had one and duplicated)
A&G
M&F
Bennett - New Latin Grammar (Course Text)
Bennett - New Latin Composition (Course Text)
North and Hillard - Latin Prose Composition (Course Text)
Daniell - New Latin Composition (1897, so it’s not THAT new!)
Oxford I
Sharpley - Essential Latin (Language and Life of Ancient Rome - (c) 2000)
Traupman - Conversational Latin
“Capellanus” - Latin Can be Fun
Oxford University Press - “Latin Grammar” c. 1999 (a “Coles Notes” version, but pretty good for a quick reference…)
Beeson - A Primer of Medieval latin (Anthology of Prose and Poetry) (Course Text)
New College Latin-English Dictionary
Cassell’s Latin-English Dictionary
Goldman and Szymanski - English Grammar for Students of Latin
Readers
Jones and Sidwell - Reading Latin Text (1986)
ME Hardwick - “Brevitas” (1960)
Texts
Complete Horace (1934)
Horace - Odes & Epodes (1960)
Vergil - Bucolics and Georgics (1963)
Vergil - Aeneid I (1971) (Course Text)
Loeb Ovid - Art of Love and Selected Poems (1939)
Loeb Cicero - De Legibus and De Republica (2000)
Cicero - De Officiis (Oxford Classical Texts)
Bennett’s New Cicero (1922)
Pliny - Selected Letters (1964)
Greek
Koine
Basics of Biblical Greek + Workbook (Mounce)
Trenchard - Students Complete Vocabulary Guide to the New Testament (Course Text)
Greek NT
Ancient
Teach Yourself Ancient Greek (the modern series - I was desparate…)
Smith and Mellish - Teach Yourself Ancient Greek (I think this is the same one Raya has - It moved in with me when my parents moved last spring.)
Moody’s Eton Greek Grammar
Owen and Goodspeed - Homeric Vocabulary
Lewis and Skyler - Foundations of Greek Prose Composition (1934)
Forster and Webster - An Anthology of Greek Prose (1933)
Theocritus - Kynaston (1892)
The used bookstores around here have been good to me… ;D
Kilmeny
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Here’s my list. I’m starting with the Greek books - Latin to follow in another thread. [/quote]
OK, we’ve seen your Greek list. Now how about that Latin list? :drumming fingers on table impatiently: ;D
I feel sooooooo “poor” in the book category. But then, I’ve only just started. Just give me a few years and I’m sure my collection will have increased. I only have two: BLD and the New College Latin Dictionary.
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You young 'uns take note: I’m 34. I’ve been collecting Greek books since I was about 15. Only collect the best![/quote]
Holy guacamole! That’s quite an impressive collection. I hope to acquire as many books, although in/for Latin, during the next two decades. Need to collect many Latin books to keep all my French book company.
I will have to remember to come back to this list of yours, so that I can show it to my husband 19 years from now, and tell him, “See? I really DON’T have too many books!” Or perhaps in another 19 years – that is, 38 years for you – you will have amassed an even greater number of books, and I’ll use this even larger list of yours to prove my point with my husband. ;D ;D
With such a collection, do you keep them sitting out on bookshelves? Or have you stored/hidden some of them away in boxes? We have the unfortunate “problem” of too many books and not enough shelf space. 