Abstract
Abstract In this chapter we shall consider the literary precedents that were available to Aristophanes for representing the speech of foreigners (both Greeks and barbarians). It would be hard to make judgements about his portrayal of foreign Greeks—and the differences between this and his portrayal of barbarians—without knowing what the norms were in other types of literature. For we are not conducting an investigation simply into the literary style of Aristophanes; we are hoping to use information from comic drama to illuminate a particular area of Greek social thought, namely thought about language and language variation. We should therefore try to explore and account for the differences between the linguistic habits of Aristophanes and those of other Greek authors.
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