Lingue letterarie e dialetti nell'esegesi antica

This paper investigates how ancient scholarship deals with the Greek dialects. Grammatical sources mostly examine the dialects in their literary dimension and not as geographically-defined varieties. This approach is mirrored in the wider reflection of historical, literary, and rhetorical sources, which establish a close connection between a certain dialect, the ethical and psychological attitudes of its genos, the language of canonical literary authors, and its psychagogic effects on the audience.