Dialect in Aristophanes : and the politics of language in ancient Greek literature / Stephen Colvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colvin, Stephen.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristophanes--Language.

Aristophanes.

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Greek language--Political aspects--Greece.

Greek language.

Language and culture--Greece.

Language and culture.

Greek language--Political aspects.

Greece.

Greek language--Dialects.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating, or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? This book exploits the evidence of ancient Greek comedy in an attempt to answer some of the questions about ancient language attitudes. Colvin draws conclusions from a comparative study of the language of dialect speaking characters and other foreigners in Old Comedy, and on an examination of linguistic attitudes in other genres of Greek literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-333) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198152493

OCLC:

39906020