Hellenica: Volume 1: Epic - Rilegato

West, The Late M. L.

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ISBN 10: 0199605017 ISBN 13: 9780199605019

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2011

Riassunto

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This first volume, Epic, contains thirty essays, including two previously unpublished.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.

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Recensione:

These books provide authoritative discussions of just about every topic pertinent to Homer; they should be consulted constantly (Times Literary Supplement)

Philologists, historians, linguists of Indo-European, and lovers of literature will all find papers here of great interest. (Adam McCollum, sehepunkte)

L'autore:

The late Martin West was a Fellow and Praelector at University College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1974, then Professor of Greek at Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges London till 1991, and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College Oxford from 1991 to 2004.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199605017
• ISBN 13: 9780199605019
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 456