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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: The late M. L. West (Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.768kg ISBN: 9780199605033ISBN 10: 0199605033 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 12 December 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Philosophy 1: Towards Monotheism 2: Early Greek Philosophy 3: Alcman and Pythagoras 4: Ab Ov: The Origins of the Ionian World Model 5: The Date of Zoroaster 6: The Midnight Planet 7: Cosmology in the Greek Tragedians 8: The Eternal Triangle: The Curious Cosmology of Petron of Himera 9: Seventeen Distorted Mirrors in Plato 10: An Atomist Illustration in Aristotle 11: The Cosmology of Hippocrates, De Hebdomadibus Music and Metre 12: The Transmission of Greek Music: Then and Now 13: When is a Harp a Panpipe? 14: Ion of Chios on the Eleven-stringed Lyre 15: Alcidamas(?) 16: The Christian Hymn from Oxyrhynchus: Greek Music or Syriac? 17: Music Therapy in Antiquity 18: Three Topics in Greek Metre: Catalexis, Anceps, Caesura 19: Grey Uniforms and Lopsided Disguises: Sicking's Verslehre 20: W. S. Allen's Theory of Stress in Classical Greek 21: Theocritus and the Aeolic Base Literary Byways. Varia 22: The Greek Poetess: Her Role and Image 23: The Name of Aphrodite 24: Rhapsodes at Festivals 25: The Contest of Homer and Hesiod 26: The Ascription of Fables to Aesop in Archaic and Classical Greece 27: Fable and Disputation 28: Ion of Chios 29: Erinna 30: The Way of a Maid with a Moke: P. Oxy. 4762 31: Longinus and the Grandeur of God 32: Magnus and Marcellinus: Unnoticed Acrostics in the cyranides 33: The Eighth Homeric Hymn and Proclus 34: Two Regius Professors of Greek 35: Obiter Dicta Supplementary list of publications Indexes 1: Greek Words and Forms 2: Passages 3: General 4: Publications reprinted or excerpted in Hellenica I-IIIReviewsthe author's personality and sheer intellectual versatility, as well as the inclusion of some hard-to-access pieces, makes it enjoyable to read the volume straight through from beginning to end. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review the volume is a joy Edith Hall, Bryn Mawr Classical Review the volume is a joy * Edith Hall, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationThe 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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