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Encomium 'Forward into the past' The Academic Publications of M. L. West I. EPIC 1. Terminal problems 2. The monster and the monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid 3. Low words in high places: sex, bodily functions and body parts in Homeric epic and other higher genres 4. Smileumata Iliaka: three puzzling verses 5. Hesiod's Theogony and the folk-tale 6. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes II. LYRIC, ELEGIC, IAMBIC 7. Night thoughts (Archilochus 23 and 196a West) 8. A human fable and the justice of beasts in Archilochus 9. Hipponactea quaedam 10. Pindaric accompaniments 11. Lucian and Archilochus, or: How to make use of the ancient iambographers in the context of the Second Sophistic III. TRAGEDY 12. Housman's Greek 13. Greek tragedy: text and context 14. Desperate straits and the tragic stage 15. Sophocles' learning curve 16. 'Darkness, my light': enigmatic Ajax 17. Notes on the Bacchae 18. Tragic interpolation and Philip II: Pylades' forgotten exile and other problems in Euripides' Orestes 19. Some poetic connections of Lycophron's Alexandra IV. METRE AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM 20. Dionysius' ear 21. What's in a line? Papyrus formats and Hephaestionic formulae 22. Reconstructing archetypes: a new proposal and an old fallacy 23. Critical notes on the Greek paroemiographers 24. Erasmus on Homer's Moly 25. Homage to G&R 11 (1964), 185-7, or: The Sibyl prophesies the slaying of the Jabberwock |