Una questione di storia della lingua greca tra performance e scrittura del testo omerico

This contribution draws attention on a class of variant readings of the Homeric text that have been explained as adaptations of ancient forms required by the metre determined by the Ionic-Attic pronunciation. Two variant readings of this class, in a scholium and in a papyrus, are defined «common» by the expression ἡ κοινή. This correlation, never highlighted before, seems to suggest that the text of the ancient vulgata of Homer has been influenced by and, ultimately, derives from the Ionic-Attic performances recurring in Athens in one of the most significant grammatical peculiarity of the Homeric language.