Aeolian, Aeolic

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Iliad 1.463

The anonymous author of a Life of Homer, in Vita 1.517–537, argues that Homer, as the poet of the Iliad and Odyssey, was an Aioleús ‘Aeolian’, and, in making this argument, he cite ... Continue reading

Iliad 1.463/ anchor comment on: Aeolians as speakers of Aeolic, vs. Ionians as speakers of Ionic

testFrom a purely linguistic point of view, an ‘Aeolian’ was whoever spoke a dialect known as Aeolic, which along with Ionic and Doric was a major dialectal grouping of the Greek l ... Continue reading