Overview

Martin West is internationally known as one of the outstanding Classical scholars of our time, and one of the most prolific. Hellenica is a three-volume selection of ninety or so of his most notable papers relating to Greek literature and thought. This second volume contains thirty-one items chosen from over four decades of publication. It is devoted to the lyric poets and tragedy; there are papers on Archilochus, Alcman, Sappho, Stesichorus, Simonides, Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Corinna, among others, and the collection includes a previously unpublished lecture on Zeus in Aeschylus. Connoisseurs of Greek verse composition will relish the appendix containing a college dinner menu transformed into a hilarious parody of the Cassandra scene from the Agamemnon. The first volume is devoted to early epic and the third volume will contain papers on philosophy, music, metre, and other miscellaneous topics. Each volume contains a preface, indexes, and a full list of the authors other writings relating to the areas in question.

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Author:   The late M. L. West (Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.642kg
ISBN:  

9780199605026

ISBN 10:   0199605025
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   03 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations 1: A New Epode of Archilochus 2: Archilochus and Telephos 3: The Date of Alcman 4: Burning Sappho 5: The New Sappho 6: Alcaeus' Brother 7: Phocylides 8: Stesichorus 9: Stesichorea 10: Simonides Redivivus 11: Pindar as a Man of Letters 12: The Chronology of Early Attic Tragedy 13: The Religious Interpretation of Myth in Aeschylus 14: Zeus in Aeschylus 15: King and Demos in Aeschylus 16: Colloquialism and Naive Style in Aeschylus 17: Where Eagles Dare: The Parodos of the Agamemnon 18: On Garvie s Choephori 19: Iliad and Aethiopis on the Stage: Aeschylus and Son 20: The Prometheus Trilogy 21: Ancestral Curses 22: Euripides' Critique of Aeschylus: Electra 518-46 23: Author's Afterthoughts in Orestes 24: The End of Iphigeneia in Aulis 25: A Vagina in Search of an Author 26: A New Musical Papyrus: Carcinus Medea 27: The Song of Arion the Dolphin-rider (PMG 939) 28: Corinna 29: Who's Afraid of Dating Corinna? 30: The Epidaurian Hymn to the Mother of the Gods 31: The Anacreontea Supplementary list of publications relating to lyric and drama Indexes Greek Words and Forms Passages General

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The late Martin West was a Fellow and Praelector at University College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1974, then Professor of Greek at Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges London till 1991, and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College Oxford from 1991 to 2004.

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