Product Description: Ancient Greek is commonly considered a 'synthetic' or 'inflectional' language, that is, a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio. Nevertheless, already at the earliest stages of the language one finds traces of multi-word 'periphrastic' constructions similar to those in the modern European languages, as in etanu *giotanuomicron#uepsilonnu alpha, 'it was happening', or epsilonchiepsiloniota alphatauiota#ualpha*salphasigmaf , 'he has dishonoured'...read more