Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Specimens of Greek Dialects: Being a Fourth Greek Reader, With Introductions and Notes
This Fourth Greek Reader is intended to give specimens of the principal Greek dialects, Homeric, Ionic, Aeolic and Doric. It comprises selections from the Iliad, so arranged as to present something like a consecutive story of the for tunes of the Greeks before Troy. This is followed by a number of tales from Herodotus. A few illustrations of Aeolic dialect are given from Alcaeus, Sappho, etc.; and the specimens of Doric are taken from Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus.
It seemed to me that a more intelligible idea of the various dialects could be gained from such specimens, than from shorter fragments, or from the elegiac or lyric writers, in whom so great a mixture of different forms is to be found.
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