Particles in Ancient Greek DiscourseThe study of ancient Greek particles has been an integral part of the study of the Greek language from its earliest beginnings. Among the first parts of speech to be distinguished in Greek scholarship were the ("combiners"), which include the later category of particles. In the Renaissance, Matthaeus Devarius a Greek scholar working in Rome published a monograph on particles only sixteen years after Estienne's Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and in the