THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE FOR INTERPOLATION IN HOMER

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to textblock. DJ has small tears and a bit of chipping. DJ spine is browned.; In the quest for the original Homeric text, Bolling's strategy is to begin, not with an 'Ur-text' as some earlier scholars had attempted, but with the poems as they appear at the beginning of our tradition, and to 'remove the accretions stratum by stratum, as in the excavation of a buried temple'. He attempts to reconstruct the earlier texts of the Iliad and Odyssey by not only identifying and eliminating interpolations, but by understanding the traditions of the earlier interpolators and editors and thus establishing a standard for future work.; 259 pages.