How Long to Read Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors

How Long Does it Take to Read Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors by D. Gary Miller

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Description

Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than others) but in their Lesbian veneer and mixture of Doric and Ionic forms are to some extent dialectally indistinguishable. All of the ancient authors use a literary language that is artificial from the point of view of any individual dialect. Homer has the most forms that occur in no actual dialect. In this volume, by means of dialectally and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the same period and locality in order to provide an appreciation of: the internal history of the Ancient Greek language and its dialects; the evolution of the multilectal, artificial poetic language that characterizes the main genres of the most ancient Greek literature, especially Homer / epic, with notes on choral lyric and even the literary language of the prose historian Herodotus; the formulaic properties of ancient poetry, especially epic genres; the development of more complex meters, colometric structure, and poetic conventions; and the basis for decisions about text editing and the selection of a manuscript alternant or emendation that was plausibly used by a given author.

How long is Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors?

Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors by D. Gary Miller is 475 pages long, and a total of 121,125 words.

This makes it 160% the length of the average book. It also has 148% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 1 minute to read Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors aloud.

What Reading Level is Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors?

Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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