Among the fourteen articles in this volume are â?oAspects of Religion in Classical Greece,â? by W. den Boer; â?oMani and the Babylonian Baptists: A Historical Confrontation,â? by Albert Henrichs; â?oOn Euripidesâ?? Helen,â? by Christian Wolff; â?oThe ΦύÏfιÏ' of Comedy,â? by Erich Segal; and â?oPhaethon, Sapphoâ??s Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas,â? by Gregory Nagy.

At Odyssey 14.457 ff. we find the disguised Odysseus in the hut of Eumaeus, confronted with a problem of a pitiably humble nature: he is in need of a cloak as protection against the cold, damp night. Odysseus has nothing to cover him but the foul rags which Athena has given to him when she changed his appearance into that of a beggar.