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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3040349, member: 75937&quot;]In Aristophanes&#039; <i>Lysistrata</i>, the (Athenian) playwright tries to mimic the Spartan women&#039;s Laconian dialect. There are 70 lines of Laconian (excluding lyric) in <i>Lysistrata. </i>The text of these plays, though, is problematic. The plays that have come down to us are generally textually corrupt and post-Aristophanic alterations are especially to be expected in passages with non-standard Greek since some scholars and copyists might have tried to get rid of non-Attic forms.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who are interested, Stephen Colvin&#039;s <i><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Dialect-Aristophanes-Literature-Classical-Monographs/dp/0198152493/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522502179&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Stephen+Colvin%2C+Dialect+in+Aristophanes+and+the+Politics+of+Language+in+Ancient+Greek+Literature.+Oxford+Classical+Monographs.+++Oxford%3A++Clarendon+Press%2C+1999" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://smile.amazon.com/Dialect-Aristophanes-Literature-Classical-Monographs/dp/0198152493/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522502179&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Stephen+Colvin%2C+Dialect+in+Aristophanes+and+the+Politics+of+Language+in+Ancient+Greek+Literature.+Oxford+Classical+Monographs.+++Oxford%3A++Clarendon+Press%2C+1999" rel="nofollow">Dialect in Aristophanes and the Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature</a></i> is a fascinating exploration of how Aristophanes renders Megarian, Boeotian, and Laconian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Colvin stresses that Aristophanes, quite unlike in much English literature, doesn&#039;t stereotype characters on the basis of dialect. He notes &quot;their moral character or any other personal characteristics ... cannot be identified by their accent.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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