West Martin Litchfield. Hellenica: Selected Papers on Greek Literature and Thought. Volume 3: Philosophy, Music and Metre, Literary Byways, Varia

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. – XIII, 513 p. – ISBN: 9780199605033.This volume contains the following articles: Philosophy: 1. Toward Monotheism. 2. Early Greek Philosophy. 3. Alcman and Pythagoras. 4. Ab Ovo: Orpheus, Sanchuniathon, and the Origins of the Ionian World Model. 5. The date of Zoroaster. 6. The Midnight Planet. 7. Cosmology in the Greek Tragedians. 8. The Eternal Triangle: The Curious Cosmology of Petron of Himera. 9. Seventeen Distorted Mirrors in Plato. 10. An Atomist Illustration in Aristotle. 11. The Cosmology of ‘Hippocrates’, De Hebdomadibus. Music and Metre: 12. The Transmission of Ancient Greek Music: Then and Now. 13. When is a Harp a Panpine? The Meanings of πηκτίς. 14. Ion of Chios on the Eleven-stringed Lyre. 15. Alcidamas(?), Κατὰ τῶν ἁρμονικῶν. 16. The Christian Hymn from Oxyrhynchus: Greek Music or Syriac?. 17. Music Therapy in Antiquity. 18. Three Topics in Greek Metre: Catalexis, Anceps, Caesura. 19. Grey Uniforms and Lopsided Disguises: Sicking’s Verslehre. 20. W. S. Allen’s Theory of Stress in Classical Greek. 21. Theocritus and the Aeolic Base. Literary Byways. Varia: 22. The Greek Poetess: Her Role and Image. The Name of Aphrodite. 24. Rhapsodes at Festivals. 25. The Contest of Homer and Hesiod. 26. The Ascription of Fables to Aesop in Archaic and Classical Greece. 27. Fable and Disputation. 28. Ion of Chios. 29. Erinna. 30. The Way of a Maid with a Moke: P. Oxy. 4762. 31. ‘Longinus’ and the Grandeur of God. 32. Magnus and Marcellinus: Unnoticed Acrostics in the Cyranides. 33. The Eighth Homeric Hymn and Proclus. 34. Two Regius Professors of Greek. 35. Obiter Dicta. The volume contains also: Supplementary List of Publications and Indexes (1. Greek Words and Forms. 2. Passages. 3. General. 4. Publications reprinted or excerpted in Hellenica I-III.).