MORPHOLOGY OF THE AORIST’S THEME IN THE ATTICIST LEXICA AND GRAMMARS (I-III AD)

Abstract

In the 2nd-3rd centuries ad the Greek language had already undergone considerable phonetic, morphological and syntax changes from the Attic Greek of the 5th century bc. Therefore, ca. 2nd century ad the so-called Atticist Grammarians appeared, whose objective was to correct the undergoing changes of the Greek language using the attic dialect as a model. This brief study aims to describe the morphological situation of the aorist during the 1st-3rd centuries ad examining the complaints of the Atticist Grammarians towards the forms of the aorist which they considered to be incorrect, as well as to verify in what measure such complaints were reflected on the literature of those centuries.