Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors : : Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus / / D. Gary Miller.
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 Dor...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Dating and Other Conventions
- Greek Authors and Their Abbreviations
- Bibliographical Abbreviations
- General Abbreviations
- 1. Indo-European Background
- 2. Anatolian
- 3. Pre-Greek
- 4. Greece, Greek, and Its Dialects
- 5. Phonological Systems of Greek through Time
- 6. Evolution of the Greek Vowel System
- 7. Chronology of Changes in Attic and Ionic
- 8. Poetic Heritage
- 9. Homer and Early Epic
- 10. Argives, Danaans, and Achaeans
- 11. The Language of Achilles
- 12. Homer as Artist: Language and Textual Iconicity
- 13. Attic and West Ionic
- 14. Central Ionic
- 15. East Ionic
- 16. Northern Doric
- 17. Laconian-Messenian
- 18. Insular Doric
- 19. Boeotian and Thessalian
- 20. Lesbian
- 21. Arcadian, Cyprian, and Mycenaean Phonological and Morphological Sketch
- 22. Arcadian, Cyprian, Pamphylian
- 23. Mycenaean
- 24. Dialect Mixture in the Epic Tradition
- 25. Alleged Phases in Epic Development
- 26. Special Phonetic Symbols
- References
- Index of Cited Passages
- Greek Index
- Subject Index