The present volume in this distinguished series includes the essays "Homer as Oral Poet," by Albert B. Lord; "Callimachus, Fragments 260-261," by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and John Rea; "A King's Notebooks," by E. Badian; "Roman Policy in Spain before the Hannibalic War," by G. V. Sumner; and "The Proconsulate of Albus," by G. W. Bowersock.
Every speech in Homer must be preceded by an introduction, which may be a word or two, a verse, or several verses. Naturally the majority of these consist of regular formulae of various kinds.
