 Yet, many existing fragments display prosodic, morphological and phraseological features common to the Homeric language of Greek epic poetry, and even markedly Aeolic and un-Doric features (σδ = ζ, -οισα = -ουσα) which are not present in Homer itself but will pass on to all the subsequent lyric poets.This mixing of features adds complexity to any analysis of his works.The British philologist Denys Page comes to the following conclusion about Alcman's dialect in his influential monograph (1951)