Hellenica: Philosophy, Music and Metre, Literary Byways, Varia Volume III

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 This third volume contains thirty-three pieces chosen from over four decades of publication, and one hitherto unpublished. Eleven items fall under the heading of philosophy and ten under that of music and metre. Most of the remainder are on literary texts and topics; they include an English version of the author's Teubner Lecture on the role and image of the Greek poetess, and obituaries of two Oxford Regius Professors of Greek. The volume is rounded off with a provocative collection of Obiter Dicta culled from the whole body of the author's output. The first volume is devoted to early epic and the second to the lyric poets and tragedy. Each volume contains a preface, indexes, and a full list of the author's other writings relating to the areas in question. This third one also contains an index of the publications reproduced or excerpted in Hellenica I-III.PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; PHILOSOPHY ; 1. Towards Monotheism ; 2. Early Greek Philosophy ; 3. Alcman and Pythagoras ; 4. Ab Ov: The Origins of the Ionian World Model ; 5. The Date of Zoroaster ; 6. The Midnight Planet ; 7. Cosmology in the Greek Tragedians ; 8. The Eternal Triangle: The Curious Cosmology of Petron of Himera ; 9. Seventeen Distorted Mirrors in Plato ; 10. An Atomist Illustration in Aristotle ; 11. The Cosmology of Hippocrates, De Hebdomadibus ; MUSIC AND METRE ; 12. The Transmission of Greek Music: Then and Now ; 13. When is a Harp a Panpipe? ; 14. Ion of Chios on the Eleven-stringed Lyre ; 15. Alcidamas(?) ; 16. The Christian Hymn from Oxyrhynchus: Greek Music or Syriac? ; 17. Music Therapy in Antiquity ; 18. Three Topics in Greek Metre: Catalexis, Anceps, Caesura ; 19. Grey Uniforms and Lopsided Disguises: Sicking's Verslehre ; 20. W. S. Allen's Theory of Stress in Classical Greek ; 21. Theocritus and the Aeolic Base ; LITERARY BYWAYS. VARIA ; 22. The Greek Poetess: Her Role and Image ; 23. The Name of Aphrodite ; 24. Rhapsodes at Festivals ; 25. The Contest of Homer and Hesiod ; 26. The Ascription of Fables to Aesop in Archaic and Classical Greece ; 27. Fable and Disputation ; 28. Ion of Chios ; 29. Erinna ; 30. The Way of a Maid with a Moke: P. Oxy. 4762 ; 31. Longinus and the Grandeur of God ; 32. Magnus and Marcellinus: Unnoticed Acrostics in the cyranides ; 33. The Eighth Homeric Hymn and Proclus ; 34. Two Regius Professors of Greek ; 35. Obiter Dicta ; SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ; INDEXES ; 1. Greek Words and Forms ; 2. Passages ; 3. General ; 4. Publications reprinted or excerpted in Hellenica I-III