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Dialect Passages and Text Constitution in Aristophanes' Acharnians

Dialect Passages and Text Constitution in Aristophanes' Acharnians DIALECT PASSAGES AND TEXT CONSTITUTION IN ARISTOPHANES' ACHARNIANS* BY GERARD VERBAARSCHOT 1. Introduction In some of his comedies Aristophanes has staged personages that employ non-Attic Greek. Three dialects are in question here: the Megarian, the Boeotian and the Laconian. The first two dialects are found in the Acharnians; the Laconian dialect occurs in the Lysistratal). In this article I will try to show that the editions are due for revision as concerns the dialect passages of the Acharnians2). The dialect passages in question are the Megarian and the Boeotian passage (respectively the verses 729-835 and 860-958)3). My * This article is based upon my unpublished research, entitled Het niet-Atties Grieks bij Aristofanes. Doktoraalskriptie (Nijmegen 1986), which does not only try to give an answer to the question whether Aristophanes has rendered the authentic dialect, but also tries to show his intentions of using certain linguistic features. 1) Also in Knights 1225 and Peace 214 Laconian is spoken. Besides in Peace 47-48 Ionic usage occurs. In all these cases however the words are presented as a quota- tion by speakers of Attic and are therefore not spoken by a speaker of the relevant dialect itself. 2) The following editions http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Dialect Passages and Text Constitution in Aristophanes' Acharnians

Verbaarschot, Gerard
Mnemosyne , Volume 41 (3-4): 269 – Jan 1, 1988
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
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10.1163/156852588X00552
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DIALECT PASSAGES AND TEXT CONSTITUTION IN ARISTOPHANES' ACHARNIANS* BY GERARD VERBAARSCHOT 1. Introduction In some of his comedies Aristophanes has staged personages that employ non-Attic Greek. Three dialects are in question here: the Megarian, the Boeotian and the Laconian. The first two dialects are found in the Acharnians; the Laconian dialect occurs in the Lysistratal). In this article I will try to show that the editions are due for revision as concerns the dialect passages of the Acharnians2). The dialect passages in question are the Megarian and the Boeotian passage (respectively the verses 729-835 and 860-958)3). My * This article is based upon my unpublished research, entitled Het niet-Atties Grieks bij Aristofanes. Doktoraalskriptie (Nijmegen 1986), which does not only try to give an answer to the question whether Aristophanes has rendered the authentic dialect, but also tries to show his intentions of using certain linguistic features. 1) Also in Knights 1225 and Peace 214 Laconian is spoken. Besides in Peace 47-48 Ionic usage occurs. In all these cases however the words are presented as a quota- tion by speakers of Attic and are therefore not spoken by a speaker of the relevant dialect itself. 2) The following editions

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