Bøker av The late M. L. (Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College West

The third volume in West's Hellenica trilogy is devoted to philosophy, and music and metre; however, it also contains essays on other literary texts and topics.

The second volume in West's Hellenica trilogy is devoted to lyric poetry and drama.

The first volume in West's Hellenica trilogy is devoted to Homeric epic, its historical and mythological background, the transition from oral to written poetry, and other hexameter poems produced at the same period as the Iliad and Odyssey.

A commentary on the making of the Iliad, distinguishing the different stages of the poet's workings, illuminating his aims and methods, and identifying techniques and motifs derived from ancestral Indo-European tradition or imported from the Near East.