Its value lies in the high quality of most of the individual contributions

John Gibert Bryn Mawr Claccical Review

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.
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A wide-ranging collection of articles on Greek poetry written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It honours the achievement of Martin West, and includes a full bibliography of his academic publications.
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Encomium ; 'Forward into the past' ; The Academic Publications of M. L. West ; I. EPIC ; 1. Terminal problems ; 2. The monster and the monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid ; 3. Low words in high places: sex, bodily functions and body parts in Homeric epic and other higher genres ; 4. Smileumata Iliaka: three puzzling verses ; 5. Hesiod's Theogony and the folk-tale ; 6. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes ; II. LYRIC, ELEGIC, IAMBIC ; 7. Night thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West) ; 8. A human fable and the justice of beasts in Archilochus ; 9. Hipponactea quaedam ; 10. Pindaric accompaniments ; 11. Lucian and Archilochus, or: How to make use of the ancient iambographers in the context of the Second Sophistic ; III. TRAGEDY ; 12. Housman's Greek ; 13. Greek tragedy: text and context ; 14. Desperate straits and the tragic stage ; 15. Sophocles' learning curve ; 16. 'Darkness, my light': enigmatic Ajax ; 17. Notes on the Bacchae ; 18. Tragic interpolation and Philip II: Pylades' forgotten exile and other problems in Euripides' Orestes ; 19. Some poetic connections of Lycophron's Alexandra ; IV. METRE AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM ; 20. Dionysius' ear ; 21. What's in a line? Papyrus formats and Hephaestionic formulae ; 22. Reconstructing archetypes: a new proposal and an old fallacy ; 23. Critical notes on the Greek paroemiographers ; 24. Erasmus on Homer's Moly ; 25. Homage to G&R 11 (1964), 185-7, or: The Sibyl prophesies the slaying of the Jabberwock
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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
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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.
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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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199285686
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
688 gr
Høyde
220 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
464

Om bidragsyterne

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.