Hellenica: Volume I: Epic

Martin West is internationally known as one of the outstanding Classical scholars of our time, and one of the most prolific.

Hellenica is a three-volume selection of ninety or so of his more notable papers relating to Greek literature and thought.

This first volume, Epic, contains thirty essays, including two previously unpublished. It is devoted to early epic, from its Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean roots to its later manifestations in the Homeric Hymns and the poetry ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth.

There are pieces on the myths of Helen and the Trojan War, on the transition from oral to written epic, and on the relationship of the Iliad and Odyssey to other lost poems.

Spanning forty years of scholarship, the collection as a whole presents a powerful and coherent individual vision of the emergence of heroic epic in the archaic age of
Greece.

The second and third volumes, to appear at yearly intervals, will contain papers on lyric poets, tragedy, philosophy, music, meter, and other miscellaneous topics.

Each volume will contain a preface, an index, and a full list of the author's other writings relating to the areas in question.


Author: M. L. West
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/15/2012
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780199605019

About the Author

Martin West was a Fellow and Praelector at University College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1974, then Professor of Greek at Bedford College and Royal Holloway Colleges, London, till 1991, and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 1991 to 2004. He continues to live and work in Oxford.

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