Introduction: Perceptions and Social Uses of the Ancient Greek Dialects

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface v
3. Contents VII
4. List of Abbreviations
5. List of Tables XIII
6. List of Figures XV
7. Introduction: Perceptions and Social Uses of the Ancient Greek Dialects 1
8. Section I: Poetic Dialects and Epigraphic Poetry
9. A Polymorphic Goddess: The Multiple Dialectal Variants of Athena’s Name in Attic Poetry 31
10. Alternative Literary Traditions in Greek Epigrammatic Poetry down to 400 BCE? 53
11. Local Dialects and “Literary Language(s)” in Classical and Hellenistic Inscribed Sacred Songs: Tradition, Linguistic Adaptation, and Transmission 81
12. Hellenistic Epigrams from Cos: Between Pan-Hellenic Dialectal Trends and Local Influence 107
13. Section II: Regional Histories of Dialect Use and Variation
14. Dialect Competition: Arcadian as a Test Case 137
15. The Cretan Dialect and its Socio-political Context (8th-1st Centuries BCE) 159
16. The Boeotian Dialect (Late 8th or Early 7th to 2nd Century BCE): Ecology of a System 179
17. Dialect, Koine, and Latin on Lesbos 209
18. Section III: When and How to Switch to Koine Greek
19. Competing Influences and Dialectal Models in the Language of Boeotian Proxeny Decrees (4th to 2nd Century BCE) 229
20. Koineization in NW Doric Areas and the Onomastic Evidence: The Κλεύμαχος/Κλεόμαχος-type Compound Names Revisited 253
21. Socio-dialectal Koineization in the Argive Onomasticon: A Quantitative Analysis of a Cohort of 275 Personal Names (6th cent. BCE – 2nd cent. CE) 285
22. Section IV: Perceptions and Classifications of the Greek Dialects in Antiquity and Beyond
23. Perceptions of Linguistic Divergence in Greek Comedy 313
24. Sounding Attic in Imperial Inscriptions 333
25. “Unlicensed Greek”: The “Dialect of Alexandria” in Ancient Greek Scholarship 365
26. The Grammaticus Leidensis on the Aeolic Dialect: A Study in Textual Criticism and Historical Perceptual Dialectology 395
27. The Aeolodoric Theory: A Reflection on the Perception of the Ancient Greek Dialects 415
28. List of Contributors 439
29. General Index
30. Index of Authors and Passages
31. Index of Inscriptions and Papyri