Hesperos

Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday

Edited by P. J. Finglass, C. Collard, and N. J. Richardson

An unusually wide-ranging collection of articles on ancient Greek poetry
Contains contributions from scholars from Japan and Brazil as well as from the USA and Europe
Includes a full bibliography of Martin West's academic publications

Hesperos

Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday

Edited by P. J. Finglass, C. Collard, and N. J. Richardson

Description

Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nearly half a century his publications have transformed our understanding of Greek poetry. This volume celebrates his achievement with twenty-five papers on different areas of the subject which he has illuminated, written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It also includes West's Balzan Prize acceptance speech, 'Forward into the Past', in which he explains his approach to literary scholarship, and a complete bibliography of his academic publications.

Hesperos

Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday

Edited by P. J. Finglass, C. Collard, and N. J. Richardson

Encomium, K. J. Dover
`Forward into the past', M. L. West
The Academic Publications of M. L. West
I. Epic
1. Terminal problems, S. R. West
2. The monster and the monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid, G. O. Hutchinson
3. Low words in high places: sex, bodily functions and body parts in Homeric epic and other higher genres, D. M. Bain
4. Smileumata Iliaka: three puzzling verses, W. Burkert
5. Hesiod's Theogony and the folk-tale, M. Davies
6. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, N. J. Richardson
II. Lyric, Elegic, Iambic
7. Night thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West), E. W. Handley
8. A human fable and the justice of beasts in Archilochus, P. da Cunha Correa
9. Hipponactea quaedam, C. Watkins
10. Pindaric accompaniments, W. B. Henry
11. Lucian and Archilochus, or: How to make use of the ancient iambographers in the context of the Second Sophistic, H.-G. Nesselrath
III. Tragedy
12. Housman's Greek, J. Diggle
13. Greek tragedy: text and context, A. F. Garvie
14. Desperate straits and the tragic stage, J. Griffin
15. Sophocles' learning curve, C. B. R. Pelling
16. `Darkness, my light': enigmatic Ajax, S. J. Instone
17. Notes on the Bacchae, J. S. Scullion
18. Tragic interpolation and Philip II: Pylades' forgotten exile and other problems in Euripides' Orestes, P. D. Kovacs
19. Some poetic connections of Lycophron's Alexandra, A. S. Hollis
IV. Metre and Textual Criticism
20. Dionysius' ear, L. P. E. Parker
21. What's in a line? Papyrus formats and Hephaestionic formulae, K. Itsumi
22. Reconstructing archetypes: a new proposal and an old fallacy, M. D. Reeve
23. Critical notes on the Greek paroemiographers, W. Buhler
24. Erasmus on Homer's Moly, R. Kassel, translated by Leofranc Holford-Strevens
25. Homage to G&R 11 (1964), 185-7, or: The Sibyl prophesies the slaying of the Jabberwock, J. L. Lightfoot

Hesperos

Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday

Edited by P. J. Finglass, C. Collard, and N. J. Richardson

Author Information

P. J. Finglass is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham. Before retirement, C. Collard was Professor of Classics at the University of Wales at Swansea. N. J. Richardson is Warden of Greyfriars Hall, Oxford.

Contributors:

The late David Bain, University of Manchester
Winfried Buhler, University of Hamburg
Walter Burkert, University of Zurich
Paula da Cunha Correa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Malcolm Davies, University of Oxford
James Diggle, University of Cambridge
Sir Kenneth Dover
Alex Garvie, University of Glasgow
Jasper Griffin, University of Oxford
Eric Handley, Cambridge University
W. B. Henry
Adrian Hollis, University of Oxford
Gregory Hutchinson, University of Oxford
Stephen Instone, University College London
Kiichiro Itsumi, University of Tokyo
Rudolf Kassel, University of Cologne
David Kovacs, University of Virginia
J. L. Lightfoot, University of Oxford
Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath, Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen
L. P. E. Parker, University of Oxford
Christopher Pelling, University of Oxford
Michael Reeve, University of Cambridge
Nicholas Richardson, Greyfriars Hall, Oxford
Scott Scullion, University of Oxford
Calvert Watkins, University of California at Los Angeles, and Harvard University
Stephanie West, University of Oxford