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Martin Litchfield West OM war ein britischer klassischer Philologe. Er zählt zu den prominentesten Vertretern des Faches, besonders der Gräzistik.
Martin Litchfield West, OM FBA (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar. In recognition of his contribution to scholarship, he was awarded the Order of Merit in 2014.
- British
- 13 July 2015 (aged 77), Oxford, England
13. Juli 2015 · Dr Martin Litchfield West | All Souls College. OM, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA. Honorary Fellow from 2014 to 2015. 23 September 1937 - 13 July 2015. Background. Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004 to 2014) Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 2004)
15. Nov. 2000 · Martin Litchfield West. Balzan Preis 2000 für Klassische Altertumskunde. Für seine meisterhaften Editionen und Erklärungen griechischer Dictung von Homer bis zur attischen Tragödie sowie für seine bahnbrechenden Untersuchungen zu den immer schon vermuteten und zugleich heftig umstrittenen Beziehungen zwischen Griechenland und dem Alten Orient.
Martin Litchfield West (1937) is a scholar in classics, classical antiquity and philology. He has written extensively on ancient Greek music, Greek tragedy, Greek lyric poetry, the relations between Greece and the ancient Near East, and the connexion between shamanism and early ancient Greek religion, including the Orphic tradition.
Martin Litchfield West was born in London, September 23rd 1937, and died in Oxford, July 13th 2015. After undergraduate studies in Oxford (1955–1959), he remained there first as a junior research fellow (1959–1963) and then as a fellow and praelector in Classics (1963–1974).
Martin Litchfield West. 2000 Balzan Prize for Classical Antiquity. For his masterful editions and explanations of Greek poetry from Homer to the Attic tragedy as well as for his groundbreaking research in the alleged and still violently debated relationships between Greece and the Orient.
