Cretan texts honoring physicians: history and dialect
Abstract
In the epigraphical Cretan corpus, four Hellenistic inscriptions relating to physicians are
addressed to the cities of which these men were native (Kos, Kasos). The analysis of these texts throws light on their historical context; the linguistic comparison of the Cretan documents with Koan and Rhodian inscriptions (Rhodes controled politically the small island of Kasos), makes evident that Dorian koina and above all Attic-Ionic koine had penetrated into these dialects.
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