In the play Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) by Aristophanes, the Athenian woman Lysistrata has called a congress of women from all over the Greek world to discuss how they can stop their menfolk from fighting. When the representative from Sparta, Lampito, arrives, she speaks a comic version of the Dorian dialect. The translator has tried to replicate the effect this would have had on the audience by having her speark a caricature of hillbilly vernacular.

Lysistrata: And here's our lovely Spartan. Hello, Lampito dear. Why darling, you're simply ravishing! Such a blemishless complexion&mdashso clean, so out-of-doors! And will you look at that figure—the pink of perfection!

Kleonike: I'll bet you could strangle a bull.

Lampito: I calklate so. Hit's fitness whut done it, fitness and dancin'. You know the step? Foot it out back'ards an' toe yore twitchet.

Kleonike...