This title studies amateur and professional speech under the Athenian democracy where litigants were expected to speak for themselves.

This book is about the Homeric figure Nestor. This study is important because it reveals a level of deliberate irony in the Homeric poems that has hitherto not been suspected, and because Nestor's role in the poems, which is built on this irony, is a key to the circumstances of the poems' composition. Nestor's stories about the past, especially his own youth, often lack purpose on the surface of the poems, but with a slight shift of focus they provide a deep commentary on the present action of both poems. Nestor's Homeric epithet, hippota, "the horseman," permits the necessary refocus. The...

This volume is a collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri.

This text is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. It shows how it became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later.

This edition, commentary and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the 'Ilaid', which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. The authors use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable.

The contributors to this volume draw upon Homeric scholarship as an inspiration for perusing new ways of looking at texts both within the Homeric tradition and outside it. They treat subjects ranging from Aeschylus' reception of Homeric anger to the representation of mantic performance within early Islamic texts.

The author argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through laughter, entertainment, and popular instruction. It applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualised records of verbal art.

Graeme Bird examines a small group of early papyrus manuscripts of Homer's Iliad, known as the Ptolemaic papyri, which, although fragmentary, are the oldest surviving physical evidence of the text of the Iliad, dating from the third to the first centuries BCE.

This is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus ('Odyssey 19'). It makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication important for the interaction between the two speakers.

'Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery' investigates letters in Josephus' texts. It analyses classical, Hellenistic, and Jewish texts' use of letters, comparing those texts to Josephus' narratives.