Jonathan L. Ready is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and of numerous articles on Homeric epic, as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (University of Texas Press, 2018) and the annual Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (Brill).

This thoughtprovoking and carefully produced book will be fruitful reading for Homerists...R's recasting of the importance of tradition in the light of the composer's agency demands very serious consideration."

• FRONTMATTER; PART I: THE MODERN-DAY MATERIAL; PART II: APPLICATION TO THE HOMERIC EPICS; ENDMATTER

Jonathan L. Ready is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and of numerous articles on Homeric epic, as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (University of Texas Press, 2018) and the annual Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (Brill).

This thoughtprovoking and carefully produced book will be fruitful reading for Homerists...R's recasting of the importance of tradition in the light of the composer's agency demands very serious consideration."

• FRONTMATTER; PART I: THE MODERN-DAY MATERIAL; PART II: APPLICATION TO THE HOMERIC EPICS; ENDMATTER