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Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors - Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus (Hardcover)
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Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors - Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus (Hardcover)
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Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect
for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or
Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent
the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon,
Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus,
Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a
preference for their own dialect (some more than others) but in
their Lesbian veneer and mixture of Doric and Ionic forms are to
some extent dialectally indistinguishable. All of the ancient
authors use a literary language that is artificial from the point
of view of any individual dialect. Homer has the most forms that
occur in no actual dialect. In this volume, by means of dialectally
and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and
provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors
are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the
same period and locality in order to provide an appreciation of:
the internal history of the Ancient Greek language and its
dialects; the evolution of the multilectal, artificial poetic
language that characterizes the main genres of the most ancient
Greek literature, especially Homer / epic, with notes on choral
lyric and even the literary language of the prose historian
Herodotus; the formulaic properties of ancient poetry, especially
epic genres; the development of more complex meters, colometric
structure, and poetic conventions; and the basis for decisions
about text editing and the selection of a manuscript alternant or
emendation that was plausibly used by a given author.
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