More humanities library awesomeness- on my midmorning break today I went up to the stacks and retrieved this little beauty of a book:

Monro, D. B. (David Binning), 1836-1905. A grammar of the Homeric dialect. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1891.

I've been searching high and low for a in-depth reference grammar for Homeric Greek, which is substantially different than Attic Greek in places. Although many of the good Ancient Greek grammars do include sidebars for the variant epic forms, I'm finding that the questions my Homeric Greek student (a hardy soul whose goal is to read the entire Iliad, from start to finish) is now asking me are getting harder and harder to answer with introductory texts and their sometimes helpful, sometimes cryptic footnotes. Monro is supposed to be the definitive work, so I'm looking forward to cracking it open and giving it a whirl.