Hesperos

P. J. Finglass is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham.Before retirement, C. Collard was Professor of Classics at the University of Wales at Swansea.N. J. Richardson is Warden of Greyfriars Hall, Oxford.

• Encomium ; 'Forward into the past' ; The Academic Publications of M. L. West ; I. EPIC ; 1. Terminal problems ; 2. The monster and the monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid ; 3. Low words in high places: sex, bodily functions and body parts in Homeric epic and other higher genres ; 4. Smileumata Iliaka: three puzzling verses ; 5. Hesiod's Theogony and the folk-tale ; 6. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes ; II. LYRIC, ELEGIC, IAMBIC ; 7. Night thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West) ; 8. A human fable and the justice of beasts in Archilochus ; 9. Hipponactea quaedam ; 10. Pindaric accompaniments ; 11. Lucian and Archilochus, or: How to make use of the ancient iambographers in the context of the Second Sophistic ; III. TRAGEDY ; 12. Housman's Greek ; 13. Greek tragedy: text and context ; 14. Desperate straits and the tragic stage ; 15. Sophocles' learning curve ; 16. 'Darkness, my light': enigmatic Ajax ; 17. Notes on the Bacchae ; 18. Tragic interpolation and Philip II: Pylades' forgotten exile and other problems in Euripides' Orestes ; 19. Some poetic connections of Lycophron's Alexandra ; IV. METRE AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM ; 20. Dionysius' ear ; 21. What's in a line? Papyrus formats and Hephaestionic formulae ; 22. Reconstructing archetypes: a new proposal and an old fallacy ; 23. Critical notes on the Greek paroemiographers ; 24. Erasmus on Homer's Moly ; 25. Homage to G&R 11 (1964), 185-7, or: The Sibyl prophesies the slaying of the Jabberwock

Its value lies in the high quality of most of the individual contributions