There’s a mention of a new book on the blog What’s New in Papyrology: Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of Ptolemaic Papyri by Graeme D. Bird.
The book’s focus relates to a topic that interests me and many other New Testament scholars and students, namely what it means to take seriously the oral composition and oral context of many of the texts we study. In this case, Bird connects diversity in manuscripts of the Illiad with the question of whether there was “no original” that it makes sense to speak of. Oral compositions are inevitably characterized by fixity and fluidity, but in this case we may have textual evidence.
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