15-581: Thyia may refer to: Thyia (mythology) Thyia (naiad) Thyia of Thessaly Thyia (Phocis) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Thyia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thyia&oldid=1181389895 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
30-460: A naiad who consorted with Apollo . Notes [ edit ] ^ Hesiod , Catalogue of Women fr. 7 Most, pp. 48, 49 [= fr. 7 Merkelbach-West = Constantine Porphyrogenitus , De Thematibus , 2 (Pertusi, pp. 86–7)]. ^ Herodotus , 7.178.1 . References [ edit ] Herodotus , The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at
45-754: A book on the fragments of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women . West edited Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana , and the Homeric Hymns for the Loeb Classical Library . West was a DPhil and DLitt of Oxford University , and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy , a Corresponding Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen, and a Member of
60-694: A junior research fellow at St John's College from 1960 to 1963. His doctoral thesis, a commentary on Hesiod 's Theogony , won the Conington Prize for the best classical dissertation of the year in 1965, and was edited as a printed book the following year. From the mid-sixties, West took especial interest in the relation of Greek literature to the Orient, and over several decades, culminating in his masterpiece The East Face of Helicon (1997), defended his view that Greek literature derives significant influences and inspiration from Near Eastern literature. He took up
75-826: A list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thyia_(mythology)&oldid=1255108160 " Categories : Set index articles on Greek mythology Women in Greek mythology Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text All set index articles Martin Litchfield West Martin Litchfield West , OM , FBA (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015)
90-477: 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 . West retired formally in 2004, but remained active in All Souls until
105-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thyia (mythology) In Greek mythology , Thyia ( / ˈ θ aɪ ə / ; Ancient Greek : Θυία , romanized : Thyía , derived from the verb θύω , thýō , 'to sacrifice') is the name two figures: Thyia , daughter of Deucalion and mother of Magnes and Makednos by Zeus . Thyia ,
120-489: The 'Upper Eighth' and sat for a scholarship to Balliol College a year early. His tutors included Donald Russell , Michael Stokes and Russell Meiggs . Among his peers were future Nobel Prize winner Anthony J. Leggett , and future Permanent Secretary Peter Gregson . West married fellow scholar Stephanie Pickard in 1960 at Nottingham , after meeting her at a lecture given by Eduard Fraenkel at Corpus Christi College , Oxford, whose seminars he attended. He became
135-633: The Iliad appeared ten years later, and one on The Making of the Odyssey was published in 2014. Martin Litchfield West was born on 23 September 1937 at Eltham General Hospital ( Eltham , London ), the elder child (there being a younger daughter) of civil engineer Maurice Charles West and Catherine Baker, née Stainthorpe. His parents lived at that time in Orpington , but moved in 1939 to Hampton , where his father
150-773: The Topos Text Project . Hesiod , Catalogue of Women , in Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments , edited and translated by Glenn W. Most , Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press , 2007, 2018. ISBN 978-0-674-99721-9 . Online version at Harvard University Press . Merkelbach, R., and M. L. West , Fragmenta Hesiodea , Clarendon Press Oxford, 1967. ISBN 978-0-19-814171-6 . Pertusi, Agostino, Costantino Porfirogenito De thematibus , Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1952. Google Books . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This article includes
165-472: The end of his life. West died of a heart attack in 2015 in Oxford at the age of 77. Fellow Oxford academic Armand D'Angour paid tribute to him as "a man of few words in seven languages". West edited and commented Hesiod 's Theogony and Works and Days . In 1967, he published with Reinhold Merkelbach Fragmenta Hesiodea , an edition containing other fragmentary poems attributed to Hesiod. He also edited
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#1732851318474180-411: The private preparatory school of Denmead . At 11, he lost a scholarship at Colet Court (now St Paul's Juniors ), but was offered a feepaying place instead. West discovered at Colet his interest in languages and invented at 14 a competitor of Esperanto he labelled 'Unilingua'. In 1951, he won a scholarship to the main school, St Paul's . Excelling at both linguistics and mathematics, he was advanced to
195-469: The reconstitution of Indo-European mythology and poetry and its influence on Ancient Greece , notably in the 2007 book Indo-European Poetry and Myth ( IEPM ). West also produced an edition of Homer 's Iliad for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana , 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
210-687: Was a British philologist and classical scholar . In recognition of his contribution to scholarship, he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2014. West wrote 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. West also studied
225-563: Was appointed resident engineer at the Metropolitan Water Board -operated waterworks . West's father's family were from the Home Counties , and his mother's family from Yorkshire and Durham . His paternal grandfather, Robert West, lectured in electrical engineering; his maternal grandfather, John Stainthorpe, was a railwayman from Pickering . Litchfield was the maiden name of his paternal grandmother. Aged four, West entered
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