The present volume in this distinguished series includes the essays “Homer as Oral Poet,†by Albert B. Lord; “Callimachus, Fragments 260â€"261,†by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and John Rea; “A King’s Notebooks,†by E. Badian; “Roman Policy in Spain before the Hannibalic War,†by G. V. Sumner; and “The Proconsulate of Albus,†by G. W. Bowersock.