Miller D. Gary. Homer and the Ionian epic tradition: some phonic and phonological evidence against an Aeolic phase

Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1982. — xv, 192 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 38). — ISBN: 9783851245660.Written as a rejoinder to Paul Wathelet, Les traits éoliens dans la langue de l'épopée grecque (1970), this book reexamines the evidence for the purported "Aeolic phase" in the development of Greek epic and suggests alternative solutions which do not require the assumption that original Aeolic forms and formulae in Homeric epic were replaced by their Ionic counterparts wherever the meter permitted it.