Hesperos [[electronic resource] ] : studies in ancient Greek poetry presented to M. L. West on his seventieth birthday / / edited by P.J. Finglass, C. Collard, N.J. Richardson

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (463 p.)
• Disciplina: 881.0109
• Soggetto topico: Greek poetry - History and criticism
• Altri autori: FinglassPatrick <1979-> CollardChristopher RichardsonNicholas James
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-398) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Terminal problems / Stephanie West -- The monster and the monologue : Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid / G.O. Hutchinson -- Low words in high places : sex, bodily functions and body parts in homeric epic and other higher genres / David Bain -- Smileumata Iliaka : three puzzling verses / Walter Burkert -- Hesiod's Theogony and the folk tale / Malcolm Davies -- The homeric hymn to Hermes / N.J. Richardson -- Night thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West) / Eric Handley -- A human fable and the justice of beasts in Archilochus / Paul da Cunha Correa -- Hipponactea quaedam / Calvert Watkins -- Pindaric accompaniments / W.B. Henry -- Lucian and Archilochus, or, How to make use of the ancient iambographers in the context of the second Sophistic / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- Housman's Greek / James Diggle -- Greek tragedy : text and context / A. F. Garvie -- Desperate straits and the tragic stage / Jasper Griffin -- Sophocles's learning curve / Christopher Pelling -- Darkness, my light : enigmatic Ajax / S.J. Instone -- Problems in the prologue and parodos of Bacchae / Scott Scullion -- Tragic interpolation and Philip II : Pylades's forgotten exile and other problems in Euripides's Orestes / David Kovacs -- Some poetic connections of Lycophron's Alexandra / Adrian Hollis -- Dionysius's ear / L.P.E. Parker -- What's in a line? : papyrus formats and hephaestionic formulae / Kiichiro Itsumi -- Reconstructing archetypes : a new proposal and an old fallacy / Michael D. Reeve -- Critical notes on the Greek paroemiographers / Winfried Böhler -- Erasmus on Homer's Moly / Rudolf Kassel -- Homage to G&R 2nd ser. 11 (1964): 1857, or, the sibyl prophesies the slaying of the jabberwock / J.L. Lightfoot.
• Sommario/riassunto: A wide-ranging collection of articles on Greek poetry written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It honours the achievement of Martin West, and includes a full bibliography of his academic publications. - ;Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nearly half a century his publications have transformed our understanding of Greek poetry. This volume celebrates his achievement with twenty-five papers on different areas of the subject which he has illuminated, written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It also includes
• Titolo autorizzato: Hesperos
• ISBN: 1-281-15415-6; 9786611154158; 0-19-153656-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996203962603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno