This volume of sixteen essays includes "The Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiod's Text," by Friedrich Solmsen; "Notes on Plautus' Bacchides," by Otto Skutsch; "Gadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146-148)," by Richard F. Thomas; "Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Poetry," by Lennart Håkanson; "Augustus and August: Some Pitfalls of Historical Fiction," by A. B. Bosworth; and "The Career of Arrian," by Ronald Syme.