[380] ‘Modern’ and ‘theory’ are notoriously imprecise terms. Before attempting to define their use in the present essay, it would be naive not to draw attention to the inevitable impermanence of any study with the word ‘modern’ in its title. When the present New Companion has aged as much as Wace and Stubbings’ original Companion to Homer now has, what critical shifts will have taken place to r...

Abstract For the emperor, quoting Homer was both a danger and an opportunity. Suetonius’ Lives shows that anecdotes of quotation circulated widely to characterise emperor for good or ill. Subsequently, these moments could themselves become subject allusion. If you quote line famously quoted by are poet Caesar? This phenomenon, whereby poetic cliché be reborn as charged reference prior use tag w...

Homer's Iliad is one of the highest intellectual products of the early ancient Greek civilisation. A plethora of medical information lies within Iliad's 24 rhapsodies, and a total of 147 injuries are described. The present study records and evaluates all cases of trauma management included in this epic poem. Not only Iliad's original text but also all myths related to Iliad from the five-volume...

M. T. Homer Reid,1,2,* Jacob White,2,3 and Steven G. Johnson2,4 1Department Of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 2Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusett...