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Martin Litchfield West, (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a classical scholar, acknowledged, on receipt of the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies from the British Academy, as "the most brilliant and productive Greek scholar of his generation, not just in the United Kingdom, but worldwide."〔(British Academy: Medals and Prizes (Kenyon Medal) )〕 At the time of his death he was an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. He wrote extensively on ancient Greek music, Greek tragedy, Greek lyric poetry, the relations between Greece and the ancient Near East, and the connection between shamanism and early ancient Greek religion, including the Orphic tradition. This work stems from material in Akkadian, Phoenician, Hebrew, Hittite, and Ugaritic, as well as Greek and Latin. In 2001, West produced an edition of Homer's ''Iliad'' for Teubner, accompanied by a study of its critical tradition and overall philology, entitled ''Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad''; a further volume on ''The Making of the Iliad'' appeared ten years later for Oxford University Press, and one on "The Making of the Odyssey" in 2014. In addition to the Near-Eastern connection, in 2007 he wrote on the reconstitution of Indo-European culture and poetry, and its influence on Greece, in the book ''Indo-European Poetry and Myth''. West died in 2015 in Oxford at the age of 77.〔("Professor Martin West" ), Balliol College, July 14, 2015〕 ==Life and career== West was born in Hampton, Middlesex, the son of Catherine (née Stainthorpe) and a civil engineer, Maurice West. After graduating from St Paul's School, he proceeded to Balliol College. He married a fellow scholar Stephanie Pickard in 1960 at Nottingham, after meeting her at a lecture given Edward Fraenkel at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.〔('Obituary: Dr Martin West - Classical scholar ‘in a class of his own’,' ) Oxford Mail 16 July 2015.〕〔Gregory Hutchinson, ('Martin West: Prolific scholar whose books shed new light on the archaic and early-classical periods of Greek literature,' ) The Independent, 3 August 2015〕 He became a junior research fellow at St John’s College from 1960-1963, where he produced his first work, an edition of Hesiod's Theogony. From the mid-sixties he took especial interest in the relation of Greek literature to the Orient, and over several decades, culminating in his masterpiece ''The eastern Face of Helicon''(1997) defended his view that it was a variation on Near Eastern literature. He took up a position as tutorial fellow at University College, a position he filled from 1963 to 1974. In 1973 he became the second youngest person to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy, at the age of 35. He obtained a chair at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, which he held from 1974 until 1991, when he became a fellow of All Souls College.〔Jane L Lightfoot, ('Martin West obituary:Scholar of ancient Greek poetry,' ) The Guardian 13 August 2015.〕〔('Professor Martin West, OM,' ) The Telegraph 21 July 2015.〕 He was said to be 'a man of few words in seven languages.'〔('In memoriam Martin West,' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Litchfield West」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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