This volume includes "Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions" by Carolyn Higbie; "Aristotle's Hamartia Reconsidered" by Ho Kim; "Callimachus and his Allusive Virgins" by Andrew Faulkner; "Theokritos' Idyll 16: The Kharites and Civic Poetry" by Jose Gonzalez; "Boxing and Sacrifice in Epic: Apollonius, Vergil, and Valerius" by Matthew Leigh; "The Rhodian Loss of Caunus and Stratonicea in the 160s" by Sviatoslav Dmitriev; "Trina tempestas (Carmina Einsidlensia 2.33)" by Radoslaw Pietka; "The Vanishing Gardens of Priapus" by James Uden; "Trimalchio and Fortunata as Zeus and Hera" by Maria Ypsilanti; "Ps.-Dionysius on Epideictic Rhetoric: Seven Chapters, or One Complete Treatise?" by Martin Korenjak; "The Grammarian C. Iulius Romanus and the Fabula Togata" by Jarrett T. Welsh; "Quintus of Smyrna and the Second Sophistic" by Silvio Bar; and "The Conversion of A. D. Nock in the Context of His Life, Scholarship, and Religious View" by Simon Price.

The foundation of this book is a line-by-line analysis of enjambement, or the syntactical relationship between successive verses, in the Iliad. Such a study develops naturally from Milman Parry's work, which sought to show the importance for oral composition, and specifically for Homer, both of the syntactical link between lines and the frequency of each type of enjambement. In contrast to earlier studies, which utilized only portions of the text, Dr. Higbie's book is unique in presenting analyses of the complete poem. In doing so, she makes material available which can be used to answer larger stylistic questions of genre, effect, and the manipulation and enjambing of formulae. Speeches, similes, battle scenes, and catalogues, for example, can be distinguished by the length and structure of the sentences, as well as by the relationship between the individual sentence and the hexameter verse. Moreover, the flexibility and survival of the formula depend in part upon its grammatical construction. The importance of enjambement to Homeric verse makes this book an essential reference work for scholars and students of Homer alike.