La Βοιωτικὴ διάλεκτος in commedia e nell’erudizione antica

This paper focusses on Boeotian forms in comedy and their reception in the ancient scholarly tradition. It shows that ancient scholars were more inclined to look for parallels in other dialects than to delve into the features of a literally marginal dialect such as Boeotian. Therefore, modern scholars should be careful when editing glosses devoted to Boeotian comic words containing unexpected references to other dialects: it is likely that they are not corruptions, but rather (scanty) remnants of ancient commentaries.