WEST, M(artin) L(itchfield)

WEST, M(artin) L(itchfield). British, b. 1937. Genres: Classics, Translations. Career: University College, Oxford, England, fellow in classics, 1963-74; Bedford College (now Royal Holloway and Bedford New College), London, England, professor of Greek, 1974-91; All Souls College, Oxford, senior research fellow, 1991-. Publications: Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient, 1971; Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts, 1973; Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus, 1974; Immortal Helen, 1975; Greek Metre, 1982; The Orphic Poems, 1983; The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, 1985; Introduction to Greek Metre, 1987; Studies in Aeschylus, 1990; Ancient Greek Music, 1992; The East Face of Helicon, 1997; Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad, 2001; (with E. Pohlmann) Documents of Ancient Greek Music, 2001. TRANSLATOR: Sing Me, Goddess, 1971; (and author of intro. and notes) Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days, 1988; (and author of intro. and notes) Greek Lyric Poetry, 1993; (and author of intro. and notes) Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer, 2003; (and author of intro. and notes) Greek Epic Fragments, 2003. EDITOR: (and author of prolegomena and commentary) Hesiod, Theogony, 1966; Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexan- drum cantati, 2 vols., 1971-72, 2nd ed., 1989-92; Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica, 1978; (and author of prolegomena and commentary) Hesiod, Works and Days, 1978; Delectus ex iambis et elegis Graecis, 1980; (with F. Solmsen and R. Merkelbach) Hesiodi Theogonia; Opera et dies; Scutum, 1983; Carmina Anacreontea, 1984; (and trans., and author of commentary) Euripides, Orestes, 1987; Aeschyli Tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo, 1990; Homeri Ilias, 2 vols., 1998-2000. Address: All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL, England.