Among the nineteen articles in this volume are "Hera's Anvils," by Cedric H. Whitman; "A Further Remark on Lachmann's Law," by Calvert Watkins; "Catullus and Callimachus," by Wendell Clausen; "The Original Form of the Second Eclogue," by Otto Skutsch; "Servius and the Helen Episode," by G. P. Goold; and "Notes on Ovid: III," by E. J. Kenney.
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.