Errori della tradizione, “errori d'autore”, forme genuine. Il caso degli iperdorismi nel corpus dei bucolici greci

Recent studies have shown that hyperdialectal forms, well attested in inscriptions of the Hellenistic age, cannot simply be treated as mistakes when they are transmitted in Hellenistic texts (e.g. the Doric hymns of Callimachus). Moreover, these forms could also be used as a consequence of their presence – rightly or wrongly – in the Hellenistic editions of archaic and classical poets. On this basis, this article surveys the hyper-Doricisms of Greek bucolic poetry and argues that in several cases they could be genuine.