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"Iambi et Elegi Graeci" contains in two volumes all that survives and has been published of pre-Alexandrian elegy and iambus, with the relevant testimonia and critical apparatus. Many papyri and other manuscript sources have been re-examined, and advantage has been taken of modern editions of authors who preserve fragments in quotation. Since its appearance in 1971-2, the work has been widely acknowledged as the standard critical edition of the early Greek iambic poets. A considerable amount of new material has also since then come to light. For this new edition of Vol 2, complementing the second edition of Vol 1 which was published in 1989, Dr West has thoroughly revised and updated all the material. There are some completely new fragments, and a great many others appear in a more correct form.
The second edition will present in two volumes, all that survives
and has hitherto been published of pre-Alexandrian elegy and
iambus, including relevant testimonia and critical apparatus. West
reexamines many papyri and manuscript sources including preserved
fragments in quotation from modern editions. Since its appearance
in 1971-72, the work has been widely acknowledged as the standard
critical edition of the early Greek iambic and elegiac poets. This
first volume, thoroughly revised and brought up to date, contains
the Theognidea, works by Hipponax, The Cologne Epode of
Archilochus, several other fragments in a more complete or correct
form, and hundreds of minor improvements.
The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language
from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended,
most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six
thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional
mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of
common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed
the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was
influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European.
His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements
of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material.
Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in
Indo-European societies; metre, style, and diction; gods and other
supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the
Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other
elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the
forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conceptions about the
world, its origin, mankind, death, and fate; the ideology of fame
and of immortalization through poetry; the typology of the king and
the hero; the hero as warrior, and the conventions of battle
narrative.
Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one
of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His
Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the
beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the
Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a compendium of moral and
practical advice on husbandry, and throws unique and fascinating
light on archaic Greek society. As well as offering the earliest
known sources for the myths of Pandora, Prometheus and the Golden
Age, Hesiod's poetry provides a valuable account of the ethics and
superstitions of the society in which he lived. Unlike Homer,
Hesiod writes about himself and his family, and he stands out as
the first personality in European literature. This new translation,
by a leading expert on the Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with
readability. It is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory
notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
has made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available
again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University
Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable
libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of
the finest scholarship of the last century.
The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a
wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and
for introducing naturalistic elements into epic dialogue, and a
grand architectural plan for the poem. He was also a slapdash
artist, often copying verses from the Iliad or from himself without
close attention to their suitability. With various possible ways of
telling the story bubbling up in his mind, he creates a narrative
marked by constant inconsistency of detail. He is a fluent composer
who delights in prolonging his tale with subsidiary episodes, yet
his deployment of the epic language is often inept and sometimes
simply unintelligible. The Making of the Odyssey is a penetrating
study of the background, composition, and artistry of the Homeric
Odyssey. Martin West places the poem in its late seventh-century
context in relation to the Iliad and other poetry of the time. He
also investigates the traditions that lie behind it: the origins of
the figure of Odysseus, and folk tales such as those of the
One-eyed Ogre and the Husband's Return.
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.
The Iliad and Odyssey do not cover the main story of the Trojan
War. The whole saga, which includes Zeus' plan to reduce the
world's population, the Judgment of Paris and seduction of Helen,
the start of the campaign, the Wooden Horse, the fall of Achilles,
the homecoming of Agamemnon, and the eventual death of Odysseus,
was related in six other epics, dating from 630-560 BCE, that were
influential for lyric poets, tragedians, and artists of the
classical age but are known to us only through fragments and brief
prose summaries. In this book Martin West presents all the source
material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on it,
making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence.
Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, he endeavours
to reconstruct the connections between them, so far as possible,
and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem. In a
substantial introduction he addresses general issues, including the
nature and formation of the Epic Cycle, the status of the summaries
of the Troy epics preserved under the name of Proclus, the validity
of the attested ascriptions to particular poets, the reflexes of
the Cycle in early art and literature, and its fortunes in and
after the Hellenistic period.
The only book on the subject available in English, this is a unique and fascinating account of all aspects of the music of ancient Greece, written by the authority in the field. It includes actual transcriptions of the surviving examples of ancient music, complete with musical analysis, and covers a whole range of topics - from the place of music in Greek life to instruments; scales; and ancient theories of music. It is fully illustrated. Whether or not we can 'sense a link between the Greeks and Mozart' (BBC Music Magazine), this is a 'must for anyone fascinated by this little known area of the culture of classical Greece.
In this new and third edition, the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition have been incorporated in the main text. Some further discoveries have been included, and reference has been made to the results of recent research on the relative placing of certain papyrus fragments. The index of names has been brought up to date.
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
second volume contains thirty-one items chosen from over four
decades of publication. It is devoted to the lyric poets and
tragedy; there are papers on Archilochus, Alcman, Sappho,
Stesichorus, Simonides, Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Corinna,
among others, and the collection includes a previously unpublished
lecture on Zeus in Aeschylus. Connoisseurs of Greek verse
composition will relish the appendix containing a college dinner
menu transformed into a hilarious parody of the Cassandra scene
from the Agamemnon. The first volume is devoted to early epic and
the third volume will contain papers on philosophy, music, metre,
and other miscellaneous topics. Each volume contains a preface,
indexes, and a full list of the authors other writings relating to
the areas in question.
The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language
from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended,
most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six
thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional
mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of
common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed
the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was
influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European.
His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements
of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material.
Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in
Indo-European societies; meter, style, and diction; gods and other
supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the
Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other
elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the
forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conceptions about the
world, its origin, mankind, death, and fate; the ideology of fame
and of immortalization through poetry; the typology of the king and
the hero; the hero as warrior, and the conventions of battle
narrative.
W. S. Barrett (1914-2001) was one of the finest Hellenists of the
second half of the twentieth century, known above all for his
celebrated edition of Euripides' Hippolytus. This volume of his
collected scholarly papers includes five articles published between
1954 and 1978, together with a much larger number of others that
remained unpublished in his lifetime and are made known here for
the first time. They deal mainly with Greek lyric poetry
(Stesichorus, Pindar, Bacchylides) and Tragedy. Students of Greek
literature will welcome this unexpected posthumous addition to
Barrett's oeuvre, as well as the reappearance of the published
articles.
The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries
from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus,
Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest
poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression,
reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and
of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation
by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole
spirit of this poetry as never before. It is not merely a selection
but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments,
apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a
number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives
a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts
will be found at the end. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Making of the Iliad is intended for readers who have some
knowledge of Greek and of Homer. After introductory chapters on the
poet of the Iliad's date and homeland, the poetic traditions known
to him, the way in which his work developed, and its early
reception, Martin West provides a running commentary on the epic,
distinguishing the different stages of the poet's workings,
illuminating his aims and methods, and identifying techniques and
motifs derived from ancestral Indo-European tradition or imported
from the Near East.
Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of the ancient Near East. Martin West's book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged.
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.
This abridgement of the author's authoritative Greek Metre provides
readers with a down-to-earth, digestible introduction to the
subject. West has simplified his discussion of the basics and has
increased the number of examples illustrating the more common
metres. Altering the format slightly, West has gathered the most
common metres in their own chapter, but otherwise the book retains
the broadly chronological and historical approach of the original
work. Wide-ranging and accessible, Introduction to Greek Metre
offers a very thorough grounding in the subject.
The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca
Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation.
The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief
apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. There are now over 100
volumes, representing the greater part of classical Greek and Latin
literature. The Aim of the series remains that of including the
works of all the principal classical authors. Although this has
been largely accomplished, new volumes are still being published to
fill the remaining gaps, and old editions are being revised in the
light of recent research or replaced.
If not the profoundest of Greek tragedies, Orestes is certainly one
of the most exuberant and entertaining. Euripides stands
traditional legend on its head to forge a melodrama full of varied
action, emotion, and novel theatrical effects, with a succession of
crises crowned by a spectacular happy ending. Produced in 408 B.C.,
the play marks the culmination of Euripides' development, and in
antiquity it surpassed all other tragedies in popularity. No study
of Greek drama should neglect it. For this volume, Professor West
has prepared a new edition of the Greek text with a selective
apparatus. Greek text with facing-page English translation,
introduction and commentary.
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