A talented philologist and biblical critic, John William Donaldson (1811-61) published this groundbreaking work in 1839. It is an attempt to apply the principles of comparative philology to ancient Greek, elucidating the grammar and syntax of the language by comparing it with actual or conjectural cognate languages.
First published in 1839, this work was a groundbreaking attempt to apply the principles of comparative philology to ancient Greek.
