These two volumes contain all that survives and has hitherto been published of pre-Alexandrian elegy and iambus with the relevant testimonia and critical apparatus. The text includes the Cologne Epode of Archilochus and several other fragments which appear in a more complete or correct form. Other publications by M.L.West include An Introduction to Greek Metre The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature Structure and Origins and a translation of Hesiod''s Theogony and Works and Days.