Martin Litchfield West
MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA
Emeritus Fellow since 2004
Background
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 2004)
- Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London (from 1974 to 1991)
- Fellow and Praelector in Classics, University College, Oxford (from 1963 to 1974)
- Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1960 to 1963)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1955 to 1959)
Research interests
- Ancient Greek language, literature, and music
- Indo-European poetry and myth
- Early Zoroastrianism
Selected publications
- Hellenica I (OUP, 2011) II (OUP 2013)
- The Making of the Iliad (OUP 2011)
- The Hymns of Zoroaster (London: I B Tauris 2010)
- Indo-European Poetry and Myth (New York: OUP, 2007)
- (ed. and trans.) Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC (Harvard University Press, 2003)
- (ed. and trans.) Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (Harvard University Press, 2003)
- (with E. Pöhlmann) Documents of Ancient Greek Music (OUP, 2001)
- Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Walter de Gruyter, 2001)
- (ed.) Homeri Ilias, 2 vols (Walter de Gruyter, 1998 and 2000)
- Publications (PDF)
Other professional memberships and roles
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Urbino (2011)
- International Member of the American Philosophical Society (2010)
- Fellow of the Academy of Athens (2009)
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Cyprus (2008)
- Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2007)
- MAE (1998)
- Corresponding Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (1991)
Research awards and grants
- Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies, British Academy (2002)
- International Balzan Prize for Classical Antiquity (2000)