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Contents page List of abbreviations x Notes on Contributors xiii Enconium xix K. J. Dover `Forward into the Past' xx Martin Litchfield West The Academic Publications of M. L. West xxix I. EPIC 1. Terminal Problems 3 Stephanie West 2. The Monster and the Monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid G. O. Hutchinson 3. Low Words in High Places: Sex, Bodily Functions and Body Parts in Homeric Epic and Other Higher Genres †David Bain 4. Smileumata Iliaka: Three Puzzling Verses Walter Burkert 5. Hesiod's Theogony and the Folk Tale Malcolm Davies 6. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes N. J. Richardson II. LYRIC, ELEGIAC, IAMBIC 7. Night Thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West) Eric Handley 8. A Human Fable and the Justice of Beasts in Archilochus Paul da Cunha Corrêa 9. Hipponactea quaedam Calvert Watkins 10. Pindaric Accompaniments W. B. Henry 11. Lucian and Archilochus, or: How to Make Use of the Ancient Iambographers in the Context of the Second Sophistic Heinz-Günther Nesselrath III. TRAGEDY 12. Housman's Greek James Diggle 13. Greek Tragedy: Text and Context A. F. Garvie 14. Desperate Straits and the Tragic Stage Jasper Griffin 15. Sophocles' Learning Curve Christopher Pelling 16. `Darkness, my Light': Enigmatic Ajax S. J. Instone 17. Problems in the Prologue and Parodos of Bacchae Scott Scullion 18. Tragic Interpolation and Philip II: Pylades' Forgotten Exile and Other Problems in Euripides' Orestes David Kovacs 19. Some Poetic Connections of Lycophron's Alexandra Adrian Hollis IV. METRE AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM 20. Dionysius' Ear L. P. E. Parker 21 What's in a Line? Papyrus Formats and Hephaestionic Formulae Kiichiro Itsumi 22. Reconstructing Archetypes: A New Proposal and an Old Fallacy Michael D. Reeve 23. Critical Notes on the Greek Paroemiographers Winfried Bühler 24. Erasmus on Homer's Moly Rudolf Kassel 25. Homage to G&R 2nd ser. 11 (1964): 185–7, or: The Sibyl Prophesies the Slaying of the Jabberwock J. L. Lightfoot Bibliography 356 Index of Passages 399 Index of Greek 000 General Index 000
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Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-.