This volume offers an unusual diversity of articles by contributors from Europe, America, and the Far East. Among the articles are: "Politics and Early Attic Tragedy," by John H. Finley, Jr.; "Pseudo-Xenophon," by G. W. Bowersock; "Noctes Propertianae," by G. P. Goold; "An Indo-European Construction in Greek and Latin," by Calvert Watkins; "Notes on Ennian Tragedy," by Otto Skutsch; and "The Consular Fasti of 23 B.C. and the Conspiracy of Varro Murena," by Michael Swan.

What has been done in recent times in the fields of archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and comparative oral literature, not to mention literary criticism itself, has put the whole Homeric problem in so new a light that now above all else the interested reader of Homer, whether he reads translations or the original, looks earnestly for a synoptic view, a framework by which he can shape his critical reactions within the bounds of rational and historical probability. What follows in the succeeding chapters is an attempt to formulate such a synoptic view, to bring together--for the...