Included in this latest volume are: "A Structural Analysis of the Digressions in the Iliad and the Odyssey," by Julia Haig Gaisser; "Bacchylides' Ode 5: Imitation and Originality," by Mary R. Lefkowitz; "Agamemnonea," by Hugh Lloyd-Jones; "Euripides, Alcestis 1092-1098," by Marylin A. Whitfield; and "???????? ?p??ese?," by Cedric H. Whitman.
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.