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

by: Finglass, P.J. Collard, C. Richardson, N.J.

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 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

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.

Table of Contents
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

by: Finglass, P.J. Collard, C. Richardson, N.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780199285686 / 978-0-19-928568-6
• ISBN-03: 0199285683 / 0-19-928568-3
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

Price: 146,00 EURO

1 copy in stock