Homeric Questions

Preface

Preface The core of this book is a speech, the Presidential Address of the 1991 convention of the American Philological Association, which was later developed into an article.1 All along I thought of this article as a companion piece to two other articles I have published elsewhere.2 Now I have finally rewritten all three articles to suit the original idea of the book. The introduction and the epilogue, which frame the four chapters of the book, come closest to the original speech. That speech, and this whole book, pose some Homeric questions to an audience of classical philologists. These questions, I think, are relevant to the legacy of “the classics,” of philology itself. More than that: if I am right that philology is a focal point of humanistic studies, these questions may be relevant in one way or another to all students of the humanities. 1. N 1992a. 2. N 1992b, 1995. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK HOMERIC QUESTIONS THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...