N. Marinone (1918–1999)

My professor of Ancient Greek had two things to say about the language. 1) "There is no such thing as a regular verb." 2) "Either you know your Greek verbs or you have a life." This book gives you part of your life back.

This book is a life-saver. That glorious feeling when the tiny print suddenly an indecipherable form as a stem-suppleted aorist or an unaugmented imperfect of a perfectly ordinary verb and the sentence resolves itself into meaning and the clouds part and all is well - nothing like it.

I commend anyone who can get by without it, but I love it.

I know people who hate this book (I don't understand them) and others who boast that they have never needed it (they'd have learnt Greek ten times faster if they had used it).

A very useful book, though not quite as all-encompassing (in my experience) as the title suggests. A great resource nonetheless.