El <i>hapax</i> κλεννά y la lengua poética de Alcmán

Abstract

Alcman uses the local dialect in his compositions to a much greater extent than it is usually thought. He knows very well the resorts of the previous literary language and fits them in his own dialect, but without excessive concessions to this epic literary language, in such a way that his compositions contain linguistic keys compatible with the epichoric dialect. This use of Laconian explains the linking of his compositions to the local folklore. In the Hellenistic period his texts were reviewed, although attempting to preserve its original Laconian flavour, in order to adapt them to the late Doric literary language, following a key close lo Theocrit’s, since, from the literary point of view, the Laconian dialect provides ἥκιστα ... τὸ eὔφωνον.