Included in this latest volume are: â?oA Structural Analysis of the Digressions in the Iliad and the Odyssey,â? by Julia Haig Gaisser; â?oBacchylidesâ?? Ode 5: Imitation and Originality,â? by Mary R. Lefkowitz; â?oAgamemnonea,â? by Hugh Lloyd-Jones; â?oEuripides, Alcestis 1092â?"1098,â? by Marylin A. Whitfield; and â?oI'ηκÏ?θιον Î'Ï?Ï?λεÏfεν,â? 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.