Among the nineteen articles in this volume are â?oHeraâ??s Anvils,â? by Cedric H. Whitman; â?oA Further Remark on Lachmannâ??s Law,â? by Calvert Watkins; â?oCatullus and Callimachus,â? by Wendell Clausen; â?oThe Original Form of the Second Eclogue,â? by Otto Skutsch; â?oServius and the Helen Episode,â? by G. P. Goold; and â?oNotes on Ovid: III,â? by E. J. Kenney.
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.