Learn Ancient Greek: 38_Unit 7 Second Aorist
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2016-04-19

Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie present all the content covered in two semesters of a college-level Introduction to Ancient Greek course.

Professor Muellner describes a "new" kind of aorist form. Until now, the unifying theme in aorist active and middle forms has been the '-sa-' before the endings. The "second" aorist forms operate on an older principle, they are strong verbs that demonstrate an alternation in their stem vowels to denote tense. Pages 169-172 in the Hansen & Quinn textbook offer more complete paradigms.