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 This first volume, Epic, contains thirty essays, including two previously unpublished.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 the lyric poets, tragedy, philosophy, music, metre, 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.
| ISBN | 0199605017 | | Pages | 464 | | ISBN13 | 9780199605019
(What's this?) | | Part volume | Epic | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 706 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 218 | | Publication date | 29 Sep 2011 | | Width (mm) | 135 | | DEWEY | 880.9001 | | Spine width (mm) | 36 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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ABBREVIATIONS; 1. Greek Poetry 2000-700 bc; 2. Curtains in the Wind. Three reviews; 3. An Unrecognized Injunctive Usage in Greek; 4. The Rise of the Greek Epic; 5. The Descent of the Greek Epic. A Reply; 6. Immortal Helen; 7. History and Prehistory. The Troy Saga; 8. Phasis and Aia; 9. Orpheus and the Argonauts; 10. Grated Cheese Fit for Heroes; 11. The Singing of Homer; 12. Hesiod s Titans; 13. Is the Works and Days an oral poem?; 14. The Transition from Oral to Written; 15. On Editing Homer; 16. Book Division (Martin and Stephanie West); 17. The Date of the Iliad; 18. Echoes of Hesiod and Elegy in the Iliad; 19. The Achaean Wall; 20. Iliad and Aethiopis; 21. The Gardens of Alcinous and the Oral Dictation Theory; 22. Odyssey and Argonautica; 23. The Fragmentary Homeric Hymn to Dionysus; 24. Cynaethus Hymn to Apollo; 25. Magnes of Smyrna. A Greek Poet at the Court of Gyges; 26. Eumelos : a Corinthian Epic Cycle?; 27. The View from Lesbos; 28. The Invention of Homer; SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO EPIC; INDEX
These books provide authoritative discussions of just about every topic pertinent to Homer; they should be consulted constantly Times Literary Supplement
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