Early psilotic dialects include eastern Ionic Greek, the Aeolic Greek of Lesbos, as well as the Doric Greek of Crete and Elis
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The language used by Homer is an archaic version of Ionic Greek, with admixtures from certain other dialects, such as Aeolic Greek.
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Aeolic poems may be stichic ( with all lines having the same metrical form ), or composed in more elaborate stanzas or strophes.
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Old Ionic los, people, is used in post-Homeric lyric poetry, but the Iliad uses los, an Aeolic form.
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Compare Greek Zeus ( ???? zde�s; Aeolic Greek ???? de�s ) and Sanskrit & G 5 deva ( God ) or devi ( Goddess ).
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In North-West Doric dialect of Elis is, after the Aeolic dialects, one of the most difficult for the modern reader of epigraphic texts.
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Some fragments use meters from non-Aeolic traditions ( e . g . dactylic hexameter, or the Ionic meter of Sappho fr . 134 ).
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Denys Page argues against attributing the poem to Sappho on the basis of its dialect, which he believes is not the Aeolic dialect used by Sappho.
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Hesiod as a Boeotian was a member of the group, which is substantiated by the Aeolic phrases related to the name of Homer found in his works.
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The Aeolic dialects of Greece adopted some characteristics of Doric, since they were located near Doric-speaking areas, while the Aeolian and Lesbian dialects remained pure.
