Hellenica

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. <p/>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Stesichorus Simonides Pindar Aeschylus Euripides and Corinna among others and the collection includes a previously unpublished lecture on Zeus in Aeschylus.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. <p/>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 author's other writings relating to the areas in question.<br>