Martin Litchfield West

Martin Litchfield West OM ( born September 23, 1937 in London ) is a British classical scholar. He is one of the most prominent representatives of the subject, particularly the Gräzistik.

Life and work

West worked on the study of classical philology at the University of Oxford. In 1960 he became a junior Woodhouse Research Fellow at St John 's College, 1963 Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College. In 1974 he was appointed to the chair of Gräzistik at the University of London. 1994, he became a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, where he became Professor Emeritus in 2004.

His research dealt with the music of ancient Greece, the relations between Greece and the Middle East, between shamanism and the Greek religion and Orphism. To this end, he pulled up next to the Latin and Greek texts of the ancient languages ​​of the Middle East. Following this work, West also dealt with the Indo-European culture and poetry. From 1998 to 2000, his critical edition of the text of the Iliad appeared in two volumes in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Significantly, the section Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad.

Awards

West is a full member of the British Academy, a member of the Academia Europaea, and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. In 2000 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for his achievements in archeology. At the ceremony for the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies of the British Academy (2002 ) West was called " the most brilliant and productive Hellenist of his generation".

Bibliography

Books (selection)

  • Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971.
  • Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin text. ( = Teubner study books). Teubner, Stuttgart 1973.
  • Studies in Greek Elegy and iambus ( = Studies on ancient literature and history. Vol. 14). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1974.
  • Immortal Helen: at inaugural lecture delivered on 30 April 1975 Bedford College, London, 1975, ISBN 0-900145-30-7. .
  • Greek Metre. Oxford 1982, ISBN 0-19-814018-5.
  • The Orphic Poems. Clarendon Press Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-19-814854-2.
  • The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985, ISBN 0-19-814034-7.
  • Introduction to Greek Metre. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987, ISBN 0-19-872132-3.
  • Studies in Aeschylus. ( Contributions to the Archaeology 1) B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-519-07450-8.
  • Ancient Greek Music. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-814897-6.
  • The Greek poet: image and role. ( = Lectio Teubneriana v). Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-519-07554-7.
  • The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-815042-3.
  • Studies in the text and transmission of the Iliad. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-73005-5.
  • Indo- European Poetry and Myth. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-928075-9.
  • The Making of the Iliad: Disquisition and Analytical Commentary. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-959007-0.

Publication, comments and translations of classical texts

  • Hesiod: Theogony. Edited with prolegomena and comments by ML West. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1966.
  • Fragmenta Hesiodea. Edited by R. Merkel Bach, M. L. West. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1967.
  • Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 1: Archilochus. Hipponax. Theognidea. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971.
  • Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2: Callinus. Mimnermus. Semonides. Solon. Tyrtaeus. Minora adespota. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972.
  • Sing me, goddess. Being the first recitation of Homer 's Iliad. Translation ML West, Duckworth, London 1971, ISBN 0-7156-0595- X.
  • Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica. ( = Minor texts of lectures and exercises. Vol. 192). de Gruyter, Berlin 1978.
  • Hesiod: Works and Days. Edited with prolegomena and comments of ML West; Clarendon Press, Oxford 1978.
  • Delectus ex Iambis et elegis Graecis. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-19-814589-6.
  • Carmina Anacreontea. ( Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. ). Teubner, Leipzig, 1984, ISBN 3-8154-1025-8.
  • Euripides: Orestes. Edited with translation and comments M. L. West. Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 1987, ISBN 0-85668-310-8.
  • Hesiod: Theogony, and Works and Days. Introduction Übersetzungby and M. L. West. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988, ISBN 0-19-281788-4.
  • Aeschyli: Tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo. reviewed ML West ( = Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. ). Teubner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-519-01013-5.
  • Greek Lyric Poetry. The poems and fragments of the Greek iambic, elegiac, and melic poets ( excluding Pindar and Bacchylides ) down to 450 BC Fersübersetzung M. L. West; Oxford university Press, Oxford 1993, ISBN 0-19-282360-4.
  • Homeri: Iliad. Volume prius rhapsodias I- XII continens. reviewed M. L. West; ( = Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. ). Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-519-01431-9.
  • Homeri: Iliad. Volume alterum rhapsodias XIII -XXIV continens. ( = Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. ). Saur, Leipzig / Munich 2000.
  • Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer. Edited and translation M. L. West. ( = The Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 496 ). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2003, ISBN 0-674-99606-2.
  • Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC. Edited and translation M. L. West. ( = The Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 497). Harvard University Press, London / Cambridge, Mass.. 2003, ISBN 0-674-99605-4.
  • Spencer Barrett: Greek Lyric, Tragedy, and Textual Criticism: Collected Papers. Edited by M. L. West. Oxford / New York 2007 ( papers dealing with Stesichorus, Pindar, Bacchylides and Euripides )
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