ISBN : 9780199605026
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Simonides, Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Corinna, among others, and the collection includes a previously unpublished lecture on Zeus in Aeschylus.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.
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
1. A New Epode of Archilochus
2. Archilochus and Telephos
3. The Date of Alcman
4. Burning Sappho
5. The New Sappho
6. Alcaeus' Brother
7. Phocylides
8. Stesichorus
9. Stesichorea
10. Simonides Redivivus
11. Pindar as a Man of Letters
12. The Chronology of Early Attic Tragedy
13. The Religious Interpretation of Myth in Aeschylus
14. Zeus in Aeschylus
15. King and Demos in Aeschylus
16. Colloquialism and Naive Style in Aeschylus
17. Where Eagles Dare: The Parodos of the Agamemnon
18. On Garvie s Choephori
19. Iliad and Aethiopis on the Stage: Aeschylus and Son
20. The Prometheus Trilogy
21. Ancestral Curses
22. Euripides' Critique of Aeschylus: Electra 518-46
23. Author's Afterthoughts in Orestes
24. The End of Iphigeneia in Aulis
25. A Vagina in Search of an Author
26. A New Musical Papyrus: Carcinus Medea
27. The Song of Arion the Dolphin-rider (PMG 939)
28. Corinna
29. Who's Afraid of Dating Corinna?
30. The Epidaurian Hymn to the Mother of the Gods
31. The Anacreontea
SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO LYRIC AND DRAMA
INDEXES
Greek Words and Forms
Passages
General
