William C. Scott’s The Artistry of the Homeric Simile is being published by the University Press of New England (Hanover and London, 2009) in partnership with the Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

Professor Scott’s first book, The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (E. J. Brill: Leiden, 1974) has been re-issued as an electronic book by the Dartmouth College Library in 2009, to coincide with the digital and print publication of The Artistry of the Homeric Simile.

The electronic versions of both books are publicly available for non-commercial uses, free of charge, at the Dartmouth College Library's Digital Publishing website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/publishing/

WILLIAM C. SCOTT is emeritus professor of classics at Dartmouth College. His previous publications include The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile, Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater, Plato’s The Republic with Richard W. Sterling, and Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater.

Copyright 2009, William C. Scott.