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• Title:Hellenica : selected papers on Greek literature and thought / M.L. West.
  
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• Author/Creator:West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011-
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PA3052 .W47 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1
    
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Greek literature--History and criticism.
  Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
  
• Description:volumes ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:"Martin West is known internationally 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 most notable papers relating to Greek literature and thought. This first volume contains thirty essays, including two previously unpublished.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, indexes, and a full list of the author's other writings relating to the areas in question"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket of vol. 1.
  
• Notes:"The intention is to produce three volumes over a period of two or three years. This first one is devoted to epic. The second one will be devoted to lyric poetry (including elegy and iambus) and drama. The third will contain papers on philosophy (mainly cosmology), music, metre, abd miscellaneous other topics"--Preface, page [v].
  v. 1. Epic.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199605019 (v. 1)
  0199605017 (v. 1)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Greek Poetry 2000-700 bc
  2. Curtains in the Wind: Three Reviews
  3. Unrecognized Injunctive Usage in Greek
  4. Rise of the Greek Epic
  5. 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. Singing of Homer
  12. Hesiod's Titans
  13. Is the Works and Days an Oral Poem?
  14. Transition from Oral to Written
  15. On Editing Homer
  16. Book Division (Martin and Stephanie West)
  17. Date of the Iliad
  18. Echoes of Hesiod and Elegy in the Iliad
  19. Achaean Wall
  20. Iliad and Aethiopis
  21. Gardens of Alcinous and the Oral Dictated Text Theory
  22. Odyssey and Argonautica
  23. 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. View from Lesbos
  28. Invention of Homer
  Supplementary List of Publications Relating to Epic
  Indexes
  1. Greek Words and Forms
  2. Passages.