Usos del aoristo y problemas de interpretación

Abstract

There is a valuable expressive device in the selection and interrelation of the verbal forms, in the information that provides for the comprehension and the translation; but we not always pay enough attention to them. In the plexus of times that shape the Greek verbal system, for example, many uses of the aorist seemed to come into conflict with the fundamental value that it is attributed to the stem. How is an assumed past explained used to refer general truths or events that not necessary belong to the past? What is the determinant of these uses known as “gnomic”? What consequences can all this have at the moment of reading, analyzing, interpreting and translating?