Encomium ; 'Forward into the past' ; The Academic Publications of M. L. West ; I. EPIC ; 1. Terminal problems ; 2. The monster and the monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid ; 3. Low words in high places: sex, bodily functions and body parts in Homeric epic and other higher genres ; 4. Smileumata Iliaka: three puzzling verses ; 5. Hesiod's Theogony and the folk-tale ; 6. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes ; II. LYRIC, ELEGIC, IAMBIC ; 7. Night thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West) ; 8. A human fable and the justice of beasts in Archilochus ; 9. Hipponactea quaedam ; 10. Pindaric accompaniments ; 11. Lucian and Archilochus, or: How to make use of the ancient iambographers in the context of the Second Sophistic ; III. TRAGEDY ; 12. Housman's Greek ; 13. Greek tragedy: text and context ; 14. Desperate straits and the tragic stage ; 15. Sophocles' learning curve ; 16. 'Darkness, my light': enigmatic Ajax ; 17. Notes on the Bacchae ; 18. Tragic interpolation and Philip II: Pylades' forgotten exile and other problems in Euripides' Orestes ; 19. Some poetic connections of Lycophron's Alexandra ; IV. METRE AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM ; 20. Dionysius' ear ; 21. What's in a line? Papyrus formats and Hephaestionic formulae ; 22. Reconstructing archetypes: a new proposal and an old fallacy ; 23. Critical notes on the Greek paroemiographers ; 24. Erasmus on Homer's Moly ; 25. Homage to G&R 11 (1964), 185-7, or: The Sibyl prophesies the slaying of the Jabberwock