Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2010
1 This article complements my ‘Verbal repetition in Prometheus and Greek tragedy generally’, BICS (2000), 81–99, and ‘Repetitions and their removal by the copyists of Greek tragedy’, GRBS 41 (2000), 123–39; it does, however, seek to go wider than tragedy. The research was undertaken as part of work for a Ph.D. at University College London. My thanks are due especially to my supervisor, Professor R. Janko, and to my examiners, Dr R. D. Dawe and Professor C. Carey, for their many helpful observations on my thesis. This article has benefited greatly from those who commented on a previous version at a seminar in University College London in March 2002, and from the criticisms and suggestions of CQ’s anonymous referee.