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Distribution of Greek dialects in the classical period.[1]
Western group:      Doric      Northwest Greek Central group:      Aeolic      Arcado-Cypriot Eastern group:      Attic      Ionic
     Achaean
For the architectural style, see Aeolic order.
History of the
Greek language
(see also: Greek alphabet)
Proto-Greek (c. 2000 BC)
Mycenaean (c. 1600–1000 BC)
Ancient Greek (c. 1000–330 BC)
Dialects:
Aeolic, Arcadocypriot, Attic-Ionic,
Doric, Pamphylian; Homeric Greek.
Possibly Macedonian.
Koine Greek (c. 330 BC–330)*
Medieval Greek (330–1453)
Modern Greek (from 1453)
Dialects:
Cappadocian, Cretan, Cypriot,
Demotic, Griko, Katharevousa,
Pontic, Tsakonian, Yevanic
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*Dates (beginning with Ancient Greek) from D.B. Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Grand Rapids 1997), 12.

Æolic (iː'ɒlɪk) or Æolian (iː'əʊlɪən) Greek (also known as Lesbian Greek) is a linguistic term used to describe a set of rather archaic Greek sub-dialects, spoken mainly in Boeotia (a region in Central Greece), in Lesbos (an island close to Asia Minor) and in other Greek colonies.

The Aeolic dialect shows many archaisms, in comparison to the other Greek dialects (i.e. Ionian-Attic, Doric, Northwestern and Arcado-Cypriot), as well as many innovations.

Aeolic Greek is most widely known for being the language of the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene. Aeolic poetry, the most famous example of which being the works of Sappho, mostly uses four classical meters known as the Aeolics, which are: Glyconic (the most basic form of Aeolic line), Hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphic stanza and Alcaic stanza (the latter two so named after Sappho and Alcaeus respectively).

In Protagoras (dialogue) 341c[2] of Plato, Prodicus labelled the Aeolic dialect as barbarian, while referring to Pittacus of Mytilene

“ He didn't know to distinguish the words correctly, being from Lesbos, and having been raised with a barbarian dialect ”

The Aeolic dialect might, in the time of Socrates and Plato, sound so strange to the Athenians, as to be termed, from an exclusive pride in the Attic literary style, barbaros[3].

Contents

Main traits of the Aeolic dialect

Glossary

Aeolian

Boeotian

Thessalian

References

  1. ^ Roger D. Woodard (2008), "Greek dialects", in: The Ancient Languages of Europe, ed. R. D. Woodard, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 51.
  2. ^ Protagoras and Meno by Plato-Greek Text
  3. ^ James A. Towle, Commentary on Plato: Protagoras 341c.[1]
  4. ^ Athenaeus Deipnosophists -9.369
  5. ^ Boiotia —Anthedon [2]
  6. ^ Boiotia — Orchomenos — early 1st c. BC[3]
  7. ^ Krannon — ca. 250-215 BC SEG 23:437,7
  8. ^ Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History[4] by David Malcolm Lewis, Peter John Rhodes
  9. ^ Skotoussa — 197-185 BC SEG 43:311
  10. ^ Thessalia — Larisa — 220-210 BC - SEG 27:202
  11. ^ Deipnosophists 14.663-4(pp.1059-1062)[5]
  12. ^ Magnesia — Demetrias — late 2nd c. BC[6]

See also

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