Martinus Litchfield West

Martinus Litchfield West (titulis librorum Anglicis seu M. L. West seu Martin West; natus die 23 Septembris 1937; Oxoniae mortuus die 13 Iulii 2015) fuit philologus Britannus qui carminum Graecorum archaicorum originibus et contextibus praecipue studuit. Alumnus fuit scholae S. Pauli Coletinae Londiniensis atque Collegii de Balliolo Oxoniensis. Fuit olim professor apud Collegium Bedford Londiniense, socius Academiae Britannicae, eruditus litteraturae Graecae antiquae.

Opera

Libri ab M. L. West scripti

Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1971; versio Italica, Bononiae 1993)
Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts (Stutgardiae: Teubner 1973; versio Graeca, Athenis 1989; versio Italica, Panormi 1991; versio Hungarica, Budapestini 1999)
Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus (Berolini: Walter de Gruyter 1974)
Immortal Helen: an inaugural lecture delivered on 30 April 1975 (Londinii: Bedford College 1975. ISBN 0-900145-30-7)
Greek Metre (Oxonii 1982. ISBN 0-19-814018-5)
The Orphic Poems (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1983. ISBN 0-19-814854-2; versio Italica, Neapoli 1993)
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1985. ISBN 0-19-814034-7)
Introduction to Greek Metre (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1987. ISBN 0-19-872132-3)
Studies in Aeschylus (Stutgardiae: Teubner 1990. ISBN 3-519-07450-8)
Ancient Greek Music (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1992. ISBN 0-19-814897-6; versio Graeca, Athenis 1999)
Die griechische Dichterin: Bild und Rolle. Stutgardiae: B.G. Teubner 1996. ISBN 3-519-07554-7)
The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1997. ISBN 0-19-815042-3)
Studies in the text and transmission of the Iliad. (Monaci: K.G. Saur 2001. ISBN 3-598-73005-5)
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxonii: Oxford University Press 2007. ISBN 978-0199280759)

Editiones et versiones

Hesiod, Theogony (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1966)
(cum R. Merkelbach) Fragmenta Hesiodea (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1967)
Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1971-1972; editio nova 1989-1992; in uno volumine impressa 1998. ISBN 0198152663)
Sing Me, Goddess; being the first recitation of Homer's Iliad (versio. Londinii: Duckworth 1971. ISBN 0-7156-0595-X)
Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica (Berolini: Walter de Gruyter 1978)
Hesiod, Works and Days (Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1978)
Delectus ex iambis et elegis Graecis (Scriptorum Classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Oxonii: Clarendon Press 1980. ISBN 0-19-814589-6)
Carmina Anacreontea (Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner 1984; editio correctior 1993. ISBN 3-8154-1025-8)
Euripides, Orestes (Warminster: Aris & Phillips 1987. ISBN 0-85668-310-8)
Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days (versio. Oxonii: Oxford University Press 1988. ISBN 0-19-281788-4
Aeschylus, Tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo (Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Stutgardiae: Teubner 1990. 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 B.C. (versio. Oxonii: Oxford University Press 1993. ISBN 0-19-282360-4)
Homeri Ilias (Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Lipsiae etc.: Teubner, Saur, 1998-2000)
Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Lipsiae: Saur 2001. ISBN 3-598-73005-5)
(cum Egert Pöhlmann) : Documents of Ancient Greek Music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments, edited and transcribed with commentary. Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 2001
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (editio cum versione. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2003. ISBN 0-674-99606-2)
Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC (editio cum versione. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2003. ISBN 0-674-99605-4)

Commentationes selectae

The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts of Hesiod's "Theogony", Classical Quarterly 14, 1964, 165-89;
Conjectures on 46 Greek Poets, Philologus 110, 1996, 147-68;
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, Classical Quarterly 17, 1967, 433-50;
Near Eastern Material in Hellenistic and Roman Literature, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 73, 1968, 113-34;
Stesichorus, Classical Quarterly 21, 1971, 302-14;
The Cosmology of "Hippocrates", De Hebdomadibus, Classical Quarterly 21, 1971, 365-88;
Indo-European Metre, Glotta 51, 1973, 161-87;
Greek Poetry 2000-700 B.C., Classical Quarterly 23, 1973, 179-92;
The Medieval Manuscripts of the "Works and Days", Classical Quarterly 24, 1974, 161-85;
Tragica I-VII, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 24, 1977, 89-103; 25, 1978, 106-22; 26, 1979, 104-17; 27, 1980, 9-22; 28, 1981, 61-78; 30, 1983, 63-82; 31, 1984, 171-96;
The Prometheus Trilogy, Journal of Hellenic Studies 99, 1979, 130-48;
The Rise of the Greek Epic, Journal of Hellenic Studies 108, 1988, 151-72;
Analecta Musica, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 92, 1992, 1-54;
Simonides Redivivus, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 98, 1993, 1-14;
The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts, Music and Letters 75, 1993/4, 161-79;
"Ab Ovo". Orpheus, Sanchuniathon, and the Origins of the Ionian World Model, Classical Quarterly 44, 1994, 289-307;
The Date of the "Iliad", Museum Helveticum 52, 1995, 203-19;
Akkadian Poetry: Metre and Performance, Iraq 59, 1997, 175-87;
Towards Monotheism, in P. Athanassiadi and M. Frede (edd.), Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity, Oxford 1999, 20-40;
The Invention of Homer, Classical Quarterly 49, 1999, 364-82

Bibliographia

Jane L. Lightfoot, "Martin West obituary" in The Guardian (13 Augusti 2015)

Nexus externi

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