[B-Greek] Model of spatial aspects
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 19 15:44:44 EDT 2007
On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Don Dwight wrote:
> Greetings,
> Request your comments on this model so this beginner can get on
> with his
> study of the GNT.
> I made this model to help me to understand how the Greek verb and
> nominals might function in the mind of those speaking Koine Greek
> during
> the Roman Period.
> What started me down this path was the continuing result of the
> present
> perfect and the simple past of the global aorist.
I find it personally very difficult to make much sense of this
schematization. I recognize 3 sg. forms of future, imperfect,
present, aorist, present perfect, pluperfect, and aorist again, but
the meanings of the definitions and the intended functions of the
various case-forms of the noun KOSMOS escape me altogether. I don't
understand what EPOIEI KOSMOU, POIEI KOSMOS, PEPOIHKEN KOSMON,
PEPOIHKEI KOSMWi are supposed to mean. Nor do I understand how the
citation from Aristotle's Poetics is particularly relevant to what is
formulated here. Evidently there is quite a bit here intended that
eludes me altogether.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Model of the Spatial Aspects of the Greek Verb and Nominals
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ποιήσει POIHSEI
> The event viewed as a whole from the beginning with the causes and the
> effect continuing at rest
>
> ἐποίει EPOIEI
> κόσμου KOSMOU
> The event viewed as a whole from the beginning with the causes
> transitioning from rest to motion and the effect continuing at rest
>
> ποιεῖ POIEI
> κόσμος KOSMOS
> The event viewed as a whole from the middle with the causes continuing
> in motion and the effect transitioning from rest to motion
>
> ἐποίησεν EPOIHSEN
> The event viewed as a whole from the middle with the causes and the
> effect continuing in motion
>
> πεποίηκεν PEPOIHKEN
> κόσμον KOSMON
> The event viewed as a whole from the middle with the effect continuing
> in motion and the causes transitioning from motion to rest
>
> πεποιήκει PEPOIHKEI
> κόσμῳ KOSMWi
> The event viewed as a whole from the ending with the effect
> transitioning from motion to rest and the causes continuing at rest
>
> ἐποίησεν EPOIHSEN
> The event viewed as a whole from the ending with the effect and the
> causes continuing at rest
>
> Perspective
> A whole has three parts: a beginning, middle and ending. (Aristotle,
> Poetics)
> The event is viewed as a whole from the beginning, middle, or ending.
> An event is the causing of an effect.
> The causes of an effect are at rest, in motion, or transitioning from
> rest to motion or from motion to rest.
> An effect of the causes is at rest, in motion, or transitioning from
> rest to motion or from motion to rest.
> Rest is how a thing is, and is constant if continuing or is
> variable if
> transitioning.
> Motion is a difference between rests, and is constant if continuing or
> is variable if transitioning.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> sincerely,
> Donald D. Dwight
> Monterey, California
> dddwight1234 at sbcglobal.net
>
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