THE VERB ‘BE’ IN ANCIENT GREEKTHE VERB ‘BE’ | IN ANCIENT GREEK WITH A NEW INTRODUCTORY ESSAY | CHARLES H. KAHN | ‘Universi of Ponssvanio ‘Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. IndanapolisCambrideeINTRODUCTION (2003) 1. The reptaing ofthis book by Make Publishing Company, ity yes fer ts ppesrince in 1973, aly ges mete oportuny to mae ana for some of he dfcencis of he aigial ext. the desritive material resend in Chapters 1, VI, ad I, there ata siticn ere fat tobe cored (Sethe Appelt to this ntoducton, pags sea) But its above all he totes dcuse onined I Caper and VIL that temp to preset bere in alert and ore pres fom. Te igi version i ato Ton, abd at aways consistent Te Sasson lk dt ofcourse, since rete he tte lings ery and pies ‘phy of langage hat preva in he 160 1 aan uaderake fo bag is stra session up fo te, bt do fers more catia hope ‘obetet version of my tere aot of a, ‘Wat ems most ou of date noi te tex published in 1973s. Yea ange agnnt the view quoted from A.C. Gra that "teri no oncept of Beng which languages ar well o il upped to pesca snd thal the foctions af be represent aly Hngusic pain of Grek ofthe Indo aropeas langage This veson of linguist elatim s20 Tonge so fashieabe, and argument fay could eles defensive, One ote hand the agueat apis relatifs 00 wt il my cet ‘lnm, the conceal unity fhe temo ina, for which fete x new formelion Fat of ala word of clarification onthe mate ofthe enteric. My oi: ina am wast provide kind of pramaatial prlegomenon to Grek cata. 0, The notin of eing as frmulted by Palen, gems fo come fom sowher, ike «philosophical meteor wih ohio antecedents Bt pro: Sovod historical consequences. woud be dial o oversee fcce of his ew conception, On the on hand Plo’ dota ofthe eel beng. ‘ofthe Forms well she stugle with NoU-Being both lly ere tm ures’ count of on Othe ker bad a nl Aisles doting cats the any ays th hing a sid be” bt alo is det ‘ton of metphyscs a5 the tay of sng gu being” prove deter (saatives to armen’ mono eonception of wha And tha a ‘Thetis a wellknowa line of development in Greckntwol piso at leads to Anatagors, Empedoces, a the ist, a tht cn onl Be a sersod a response 1 the Pumenidesnehllenge. But where dd such 4