West, Martin Lichfield

Martin Lichfield West
Martin Lichfield West
	Martin Litchfield West
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Scientific field	philology , history of music , antiquity
Place of work	Oxford University , University of London
Alma mater	Balliol College
Academic rank	Professor
Known as	researcher of ancient Greek poetry and music

Martin Litchfield West (West) OM ( English Martin Litchfield West ; September 23, 1937 , London - July 13, 2015, Oxford , UK ) - an English classic philologist, a researcher of ancient Greek literature and music.

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He graduated from the Department of Classical Philology, University of Oxford. From 1960 to 2004 taught Greek and Greek literature at major universities in Great Britain: from 1960-63 in St. John's College, in 1963-74 at University College (both at Oxford), in 1974-91. Professor of Greek at Bedford College, University of London, in 1991-2004 - at Oxford All Souls College , an honorary member of the latter. Member of the British Academy (1973).

Vesta's research interests are vast: Greek poetry and music, history of religion and oriental studies. West is the author of several monographs and more than 200 articles (books have not been translated into Russian), including the dilogies “Oriental Face of Helikon” (1997) and “Indo-European Poetry and Myth” (2007), which systematically examine the Middle Eastern and Indo-European parallels of the archaic Greek culture. M. L. West owns the latest edition of the Iliad in the Toibner series and the accompanying studies, “Works on the Text and Transmission of the Iliad” (2001) and “The Creation of the Iliad” (2011). Together with Egert Pölman, he published (the best and most complete to date) a collection of Ancient Greek musical monuments “Documents of Ancient Greek Music” (Oxford, 2001). West's book Ancient Greek Music (1992) is considered one of the best in the history and theory of ancient Greek music.

Awards and Prizes

Balzan Award (2000)
from the British Academy (2002). Upon presentation, he was called "the most vivid and prolific Greek of his generation."
Commander of the Order of Merit (OM, 2014) ^[1]

Proceedings

Monographs

Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971, xv + 256 pp .; ital. translation, Bologna 1993
Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts (Teubner Studienbücher), Stuttgart: BG Teubner, 1973, 155 pp .; Greek translation, Athens 1989; ital. translation, Palermo 1991; Hungarian translation, Budapest 1999
Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 14), Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1974, ix + 198 pp.
Immortal Helen: an inaugural lecture delivered on April 30, 1975 , London: Bedford College, 1975, 18 pp. ISBN 0-900145-30-7
Greek Meter , Oxford 1982, xiv + 208 pp. ISBN 0-19-814018-5
The Orphic Poems , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, xii + 275 pp. ISBN 0-19-814854-2 ; ital. translation, Naples 1993;
The Hesiodic Catalog of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, viii + 193 pp. ISBN 0-19-814034-7
Introduction to Greek Meter , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, xi + 90 pp. ISBN 0-19-872132-3
Studies in Aeschylus (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 1), Stuttgart: BG Teubner, 1990, x + 406 pp. ISBN 3-519-07450-8
Ancient Greek Music , Oxford: Clarendon Press 1992, xiii + 410 pp. ISBN 0-19-814897-6 ; Greek translation, Athens 1999
Die griechische Dichterin: Bild und Rolle (Lectio Teubneriana v), Stuttgart & Leipzig: BG Teubner, 1996, 48 pp. ISBN 3-519-07554-7
The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, xxvi + 662 pp. ISBN 0-19-815042-3
Studies in the text and transmission of the Iliad . München: KG Saur, 2001, 304 pp. ISBN 3-598-73005-5
Indo-European Poetry and Myth . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 480 pp. ISBN 978-0199280759
Old Avestan Syntax and Stylistics: With an Edition of the Texts . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011, x + 184 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-025308-5
The Making of the Iliad: Disquisition and Analytical Commentary . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 441 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-959007-0
The Epic Cycle: A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, ix + 334 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-966225-8
The Making of the Odyssey . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 315 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-871836-9

Editions, comments, translations

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Hesiod, Theogony , ed. with prolegomena and commentary by ML West, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966, xiii + 459 pp.
Fragmenta Hesiodea , ed. R. Merkelbach et ML West, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967, 236 pp.
Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 1: Archilochus. Hipponax. Theognidea , ed. ML West, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971, revised edition 1989, xvi + 256
Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2: Callinus. Mimnermus. Semonides. Solon. Tyrtaeus. Minora adespota , ed. ML West, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, revised edition 1992 x + 246 pp.
Sing me, goddess. Being the first recitation of Homer's Iliad , translated by Martin West, London: Duckworth, 1971, 43 pp. ISBN 0-7156-0595-X
Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica , ed. ML West (Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 192), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1978, iv + 49 pp.
Hesiod, Works and Days , ed. with prolegomena and commentary by ML West, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, xiii + 399 pp.
Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis , ed. ML West, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, ix + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-814589-6
Carmina Anacreontea , edidit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), Leipzig: Teubner 1984, xxvi + 64 pp .; corrected reprint with one page of Addenda, 1993 ISBN 3-8154-1025-8
Euripides, Orestes , ed. with transl. and commentary by ML West, Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1987, ix + 297 pp. ISBN 0-85668-310-8
Hesiod, Theogony, and Works and Days , transl. and with an introduction by ML West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, xxv + 79 pp. ISBN 0-19-281788-4
Aeschyli Tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo , recensuit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), Stuttgart: BG Teubner, 1990, lxxxv + 508 pp. ISBN 3-519-01013-5
Greek Lyric Poetry. The poems and fragments of the Greek iambic, elegiac, and melic poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450 BC , [verse translation] Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, xxv + 213 pp. ISBN 0-19-282360-4
Homeri Ilias. Volumen prius rhapsodias I — XII continens , recensuit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), Stuttgart & Leipzig: BG Teubner, 1998, lxii + 372 pp. ISBN 3-519-01431-9
Homeri Ilias. Volumen alterum rhapsodias XIII — XXIV continens , recensuit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), KG Saur: Leipzig & Munich, 2000, vii + 396 pp.
(with Egert Pöhlmann) Documents of Ancient Greek Music. The extant melodies and fragments edited and transcribed with commentary . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-815233-X
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer , edited and translated by Martin L. West. (The Loeb Classical Library 496) Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-99606-2
Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC , edited and translated by Martin L. West (The Loeb Classical Library 497). Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-99605-4
The Hymns of Zoroaster: a new translation of the most ancient sacred texts of Iran , with introduction and commentary. London: IB Tauris, 2010, xi + 182 pp. ISBN 978-1-84-885347-8

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