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

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

Abstract

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 book celebrates his achievement with twenty-five chapters 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.

Keywords: Martin West, Greek poetry, Balzan Prize, literary scholarship, Ancient Greek poetry

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9780199285686
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199285686.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

P. J. Finglass, editor
Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Nottingham
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C. Collard, editor
Before retirement, Professor of Classics, University of Wales at Swansea

N. J. Richardson, editor
Warden of Greyfriars Hall, Oxford

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Illustration

Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Encomium

‘Forward into the Past’

The Academic Publications of M. L. West

Part I Epic

1 Terminal Problems

Stephanie 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

David Bain

4 Smileumata Iliaka: Three Puzzling Verses

Walter Burkert

5 Hesiod’s Theogony and the Folk Tale

Malcolm Davies

6 The Homeric Hymn to Hermes

N. J. Richardson

Part II Lyric, Elegiac, Iambic

7 Night Thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West)

Eric Handley

8 A Human Fable and the Justice of Beasts in Archilochus

Paula da Cunha Corrêa

9 Hipponactea quaedam

Calvert 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

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

Part III Tragedy

12 Housman’s Greek

James Diggle

13 Greek Tragedy: Text and Context

A. F Garvie

14 Desperate Straits and the Tragic Stage

Jasper Griffin

15 Sophocles’ Learning Curve

Christopher Pelling

16 ‘Darkness, my Light’: Enigmatic Ajax

S. J. Instone

17 Problems in the Prologue and Parodos of Bacchae

Scott Scullion

18 Tragic Interpolation and Philip II: Pylades’ Forgotten Exile and Other Problems in Euripides’ Orestes

David Kovacs

19 Some Poetic Connections of Lycophron’s Alexandra

Adrian Hollis

Part IV Metre and Textual Criticism

20 Dionysius’ Ear

L. P. E. Parker

21 What’s in a Line? Papyrus Formats and Hephaestionic Formulae

Kiichiro Itsumi

22 Reconstructing Archetypes: A New Proposal and an Old Fallacy

Michael D. Reeve

23 Critical Notes on the Greek Paroemiographers

Winfried Bühler

24 Erasmus on Homer’s Moly*

Rudolf Kassel

25 Homage to G&R 2nd ser. 11 (1964): 185–7 or The Sibyl Prophesies the Slaying of the Jabberwock

J. L. Lightfoot

End Matter

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index of Greek Words

General Index