Hellenica Volume III: Philosophy, Music and Metre, Literary Byways, Varia

by West, M. L.

• ISBN13: 9780199605033
• ISBN10: 0199605033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-02-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 most notable papers relating to Greek literature and thought.

This third volume contains thirty-three pieces chosen from over four decades of publication, and one hitherto unpublished. Eleven items fall under the heading of philosophy and ten under that of music and metre. Most of the remainder are on literary texts and topics; they include an English version of the author's Teubner Lecture on the role and image of the Greek poetess, and obituaries of two Oxford Regius Professors of Greek. The volume is rounded off with a provocative collection of Obiter Dicta culled from the whole body of the author's output.

The first volume is devoted to early epic and the second to the lyric poets and tragedy. Each volume contains a preface, indexes, and a full list of the author's other writings relating to the areas in question. This third one also contains an index of the publications reproduced or excerpted in Hellenica I-III.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Philosophy
1. Towards Monotheism
2. Early Greek Philosophy
3. Alcman and Pythagoras
4. Ab Ov: The Origins of the Ionian World Model
5. The Date of Zoroaster
6. The Midnight Planet
7. Cosmology in the Greek Tragedians
8. The Eternal Triangle: The Curious Cosmology of Petron of Himera
9. Seventeen Distorted Mirrors in Plato
10. An Atomist Illustration in Aristotle
11. The Cosmology of Hippocrates, De Hebdomadibus
Music and Metre
12. The Transmission of Greek Music: Then and Now
13. When is a Harp a Panpipe?
14. Ion of Chios on the Eleven-stringed Lyre
15. Alcidamas(?)
16. The Christian Hymn from Oxyrhynchus: Greek Music or Syriac?
17. Music Therapy in Antiquity
18. Three Topics in Greek Metre: Catalexis, Anceps, Caesura
19. Grey Uniforms and Lopsided Disguises: Sicking's Verslehre
20. W. S. Allen's Theory of Stress in Classical Greek
21. Theocritus and the Aeolic Base
Literary Byways. Varia
22. The Greek Poetess: Her Role and Image
23. The Name of Aphrodite
24. Rhapsodes at Festivals
25. The Contest of Homer and Hesiod
26. The Ascription of Fables to Aesop in Archaic and Classical Greece
27. Fable and Disputation
28. Ion of Chios
29. Erinna
30. The Way of a Maid with a Moke: P. Oxy. 4762
31. Longinus and the Grandeur of God
32. Magnus and Marcellinus: Unnoticed Acrostics in the cyranides
33. The Eighth Homeric Hymn and Proclus
34. Two Regius Professors of Greek
35. Obiter Dicta
Supplementary list of publications
Indexes
1. Greek Words and Forms
2. Passages
3. General
4. Publications reprinted or excerpted in Hellenica I-III