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2013 Reprint of 1956 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Revised Edition edited by Gordon M. Messing. Smyth's "Greek Grammar" is an essential reference grammar for intermediate and advanced learners. First published in 1920, it has been the default source of reference and citation ever since. Herbert Weir Smyth (1857-1937) was an American classical scholar. His comprehensive grammar of ancient Greek has become a standard reference on the subject in English, comparable to William Watson Goodwin's, whom he succeeded as Eliott Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University.

• Sales Rank: #81586 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.79" w x 6.14" l, 2.69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 810 pages

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129 of 133 people found the following review helpful.
The best for all pre-modern Greek except Hellenistic.
By S. Blackwelder
This is an excellent reference book! It has passed the test of heavy usage, and it has outlasted many academic fads.
Smyth does a thorough yet concise job on the known varieties of written Greek usage from the Homeric epics up to the beginning of the Hellenistic period .
Smyth does not cover Hellenistic (Koin�) Greek as much, especially not for texts that have Semitic or Egyptian "flavors:" the Septuagint, New Testament and Egyptian Greek papyri. For real grammars on those, look up these authors: Wallace, Dana, Mantey, Robertson, Blass, Debrunner, Funk, Conybeare, Stock and Zerwick.
Some writers in the centuries between the reigns of Augustus and Constantine, and the Byzantines afterward, tried to "return" to Classical Attic usage in writing, with mixed results. When reading them, use both Smyth and a Hellenistic/Koin� grammar together, carefully.

112 of 115 people found the following review helpful.
Warning about different editions
By Kirk Ormand
In this review I discuss two different editions of this book; Amazon will not allow me to separate my reviews by edition.

1. One of my students bought a paperback of this book (2010, Benediction Classics). There is a serious problem with it. This is a reprint of the _first_ edition of Smyth, copyright 1905. The _standard_ edition, and the one that every Greek commentary in the world will refer to, is a later edition (copyright 1920, revised by Gordon Messing in 1956). You might think that this would not matter, but it does: not only is the pagination different, but the reference numbers have all changed in the later, standard edition. So my poor student reads in his commentary that a concept is explained at Smyth paragraph 256, goes there and discovers that _his_ paragraph 256 has nothing to do with that grammatical problem.

My guess is that the publisher of this book found a copy of the first edition, realized that the copyright had run out, and slapped together a cheap reprint. It's not worth your $29. Buy the later edition from Harvard U. Press, and you'll be on the same page as the rest of the Greek-reading world.

2. On the NEW paperback by Martino Press (2014):

We seem to be in murky waters.
From what others have said, the Martino edition is an exact facsimile of the Harvard U. Press edition, first produced by H. W. Smyth, updated in 1956 by Gordon Messing. So in terms of quality, this book is what you want.

The question I have regards copyright. Harvard owns the copyright to Messing's updates of Smyth's 1920 edition - so how is it that Martino Press is publishing this book? My guess is that their lawyers have argued that Messing's updates were not significant enough to warrant new copyright, which puts the 1920 edition in the public domain. But in my HUP edition, Gordon Messing's Preface states: "Some changes have been made in the historical and comparative part of the work.... A very few changes, again bearing on historical linguistics, have been introduced in Part II.... In addition, lists of corrigenda have been supplied by several scholars, and /these have been silently inserted wherever possible/ (emphasis mine). Not one or two corrections, but "lists of corrigenda".

So this issue is simply this: when you buy the Martino Press edition, you are allowing this press to profit from the work that Gordon Messing did while under contract with Harvard University Press. Now, Harvard is a large institution with lots of money, and they don't depend on Smyth for their income. But for those of us who take the idea of intellectual property seriously - and I am one such - the Martino edition amounts to theft. It may not be illegal - I don't know the extent of Messing's "silent" corrections, and I'm not a lawyer. But it doesn't look ethical to me.

Amazon, needless to say, continues to do nothing to clarify the question of multiple editions, multiple copyrights, and multiple publishers. When you click to "look inside this book" you are shown images, not of the unethical Martino Press edition, but of the HUP edition - which holds a legal copyright on this work. I would suggest that that's the edition you should buy.

111 of 115 people found the following review helpful.
Need this book be praised?
By lfratan@acad.udallas.edu
Smyth is the only grammar for ancient Greek worth buying (besides the advanced treatments of specialized topics like Goodwin on the moods and tenses and Denniston on the particles). Unlike Latin, where the field of grammars is much wider, Smyth is the only English grammar of ancient Greek comprehensive enough to warrant any attention from Hellenists. Goodwin and Gulick's volume is too sparse in comparison (but note they cover prosody and Smyth does not) while Kaegi's is a step below theirs in depth. Ideally all intermediate level Greek students will begin to use this text as a reference grammar. Very reasonably priced for the wealth of information it contains. The book itself is also durable and will endure years of constant thumbing.

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