Discourse Particles in Ancient Greek

The state of ancient Greek scholarship in the modern world is the very best 19th century linguistics has to offer. It is not unusual to find chains of three or four discourse particles in a row, which drives your Greek instructor mad. And so those are discourse particles. The reason I think about them a lot is because I've studied ancient Greek for so long and one ancient Greek, especially literary ancient Greek, uses them a lot, a lot,. a lot in Homer.