Ricerc@Sapienza

Recent studies have shown that hyperdialectal forms, well attested
in inscriptions of the Hellenistic age, cannot simply be treated as
mistakes when they are transmitted in Hellenistic texts (e.g. the
Doric hymns of Callimachus). Moreover, these forms could also be
used as a consequence of their presence – rightly or wrongly – in
the Hellenistic editions of archaic and classical poets. On this basis,
this article surveys the hyper-Doricisms of Greek bucolic poetry and
argues that in several cases they could be genuine.