Greek Literary Dialects

Six sessions aimed at those intending to take the paper on Greek Historical Linguistics in Greats (paper V.1) or the equivalent paper in any of the joint schools including Classics. Other interested people (graduates and undergraduates) are welcome. Some basic knowledge of Greek is required. The class will be repeated next year.

The class will discuss the dialects of Greek poetry and in particular of Alcman, Sappho and Alcaeus, Corinna, and Pindar, through reading and close linguistic analysis of a selection of poems. How do the literary dialects of these authors relate to the epigraphically-attested (or 'real') dialects they might have spoken, and what other elements do they contain?

How might the transmission of the texts have affected the dialectal composition of the poems as we know them?

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