Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad

• Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART I. THE TRANSMISSION -- 1. The Pre-Alexandrian Transmission -- 2. Zenodotus' Text -- 3. Didymus and his Sources -- 4. The Papyri -- 5. The Early Medieval Transmission -- 6. The New Teubner Edition -- PART II. THE TEXT -- Notes on Individual Passages -- Bibliography -- Indexes

"This book explains the rational behind West's edition (Homeri Ilias [Stuttgart, Leipzig, and Munich, 1998-2000]), the best for a century."(Classical World, New York, 97 / 2003