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Dialect in Aristophanes and the Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature

by Stephen Colvin. 350 pgs.

Contributors:

   Stephen Colvin

Publisher:

   Clarendon Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1999

Subjects:

Rhetoric, Ancient, Aristophanes--Language, Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Greek Language--Political Aspects--Greece, Language And Culture--Greece, Greek Language--Dialects, Drama--Technique

	Contents
	Editions and Abbreviations	ix
	I. Investigating Language Attitude
	1.0.Introduction	1
	1.1. Code-Switching and Linguistic Accommodation	8
	1.2. The Use of Literary Texts in Sociolinguistic Research	12
	1.3. Old Comedy and the Artistic Manipulation of Dialect	26
2.	The Language of Foreigners in Greek Literature
	2.0. Conventions for Representing Foreign Speech	39
	2.1. Epic Poetry: Homer	41
	2.2. Other Non-Dramatic Poetry	50
	2.3. Historical Prose and Drama	57
	2.4. Remarks	87
3.	The Text of Aristophanes
	3.0. Overview	90
	3.1. The Alphabet Used by Aristophanes	92
	3.2. Hellenistic Scholarship	103
	3.3. Editors of the Byzantine Renaissance	112
	3.4. Conclusions and Observations	113
	3.5. Appendix: The Manuscripts of Acharnians and Lysistrata	116
4.	Non-Attic Dialect in Aristophanes
	4.0. Introduction	119
	4.1. Phonology	132
	4.2. Morphology	184
	4.3. Syntax and Usage	223
	4.4. Lexicon and Idiom	231
	4.5. The Songs at the End of Lysistrata	260
5.	Old Comedy: Shorter Passages and Fragments
	5.0. General	264
	5.1. Greek Dialect	265
	5.2. Non-Standard Attic	281
	5.3. Strange and Barbarian Language	287
	5.4. Summary	295
6.	Dialect in Old Comedy: Recapitulation
	6.0. Patterning of Dialect Features	296
	6.1. Accuracy and Consistency	297
	6.2. Contrast with Other Marked Language	299
	6.3. Function of Dialect in Old Comedy	302
	6.4. Language Attitude and Political Organization	306
	Appendix: Sources for Laconian, Megarian, and Boeotian Dialect	309
	Short Glossary of Linguistic Terms	313
	References	316
	General Index	335
	Index of Greek Words	341

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