5. Philodemus: the Aesthetic Works . Vol. I/1 : On Poems Book 1.

Oxford University Press, 2000. xvi & 591 pp. & 23 illustrations. Reprinted with revisions and addenda (paperback), 2003. [Awarded Premio Theodor Mommsen and Goodwin Award for Merit.]

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2. Philodemus: the Aesthetic Works.Vol. I/3: On Poems Books 3-4.

Under contract with Oxford University Press. Ca. 250 pp.

• [I have drafted the introduction, text, textual apparatus, translation and most of the commentary, but have to write one Appendix.]

3. From Aristotle to Longinus: the Invention of Critical Theory.

Martin Classical Lectures, Oberlin College, 1993. Past volumes have been published by Princeton University Press. Ca. 200 pp.

• [already written, needs final revision]

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1. A note on the date of Grassmann's Law in Greek. Glotta 55 (1977) l-2.

2. A note on the etymologies of diaktoros and chrysaoros . Glotta 56 (1978) 192-5.

3. Bosesthe revisited. Classical Quarterly 29 (1979) 215-16.

4. The etymology of scheros and epischero: a Homeric misunderstanding. Glotta 57 (1979) 20-3.

5. The use of pros, proti and poti in Homer. Glotta 57 (1979) 24-9.

6. Poseidon Hippios in Bacchylides 17. Classical Quarterly 30 (1980) 257-9.

7. Aeschylus' Oresteia and Archilochus. Classical Quarterly 30 (1980) 291-3.

8. The structure of the Homeric Hymns: a study in genre. Hermes 109 (1981) 9-24.

9. Un 1314: herbal remedies at Pylos. Minos 17 (1981) 30-4.

10. Equivalent formulae in the Greek epos. Mnemosyne 34 (1981) 251-64.

11. ATHANATOS KAI AGEROS : the genealogy of a formula. Mnemosyne 34 (1981) 382-5.

12. French and Frankish coins from Ayios Stephanos, Laconia. Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 77 (1982) 187-9.

13. A fragment of Aristotle's Poetics from Porphyry, concerning synonymy. Classical Quarterly 32 (1982) 323-6.

14. A stone object inscribed in Linear A from Ayios Stephanos, Laconia. Kadmos 21 (1982) 97-100 & one Plate.

15. Sappho fr. 96,8 L-P: a textual note. Mnemosyne 35 (1982) 322-4.

16. P. Oxy . 2513: hexameters on the sacrifice of Iphigeneia? Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 49 (1982) 25-9.

17. Forgetfulness in the golden tablets of Memory. Classical Quarterly 34 (1984) 89-100.

18. Autos ekeinos: a neglected idiom. Classical Quarterly 35 (1985) 20-30.

19. P. Oxy . 2509: Hesiod's Catalogue on Actaeon. Phoenix 39 (1985) 299-307.

20. An unnoticed MS of Orphic Hymns 76-77. Classical Quarterly 35 (1985) 518-20.

21. The Shield of Heracles and the legend of Cycnus. Classical Quarterly 36 (1986) 38-59.

22. Hesychius theta 216 and Empedocles frag. 21.6. Classical Philology 81 (1986) 308-9.

23. Linear A and the direction of the earliest Cypro-Minoan writing. Studies presented to John Chadwick, Salamanca 1987, 311-18.

24. Polydeukes and Deukalion. Glotta 65 (1987) 69-72.

25. Berlin Magical Papyrus 21243: a conjecture. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 72 (1988) 293.

26. Vergil, Aeneid I 607-9 and Midas' epitaph. Classical Quarterly 38 (1988), 259-60.

27. Dissolution and diaspora: Ptolemy Physcon and the future of classical scholarship. Classics: a Profession in Crisis?, ed. P. Culham & L. Edmunds, Washington D.C. 1990, 321-32.

28. Mimnermus fr. 4 West: a conjecture. American Journal of Philology 111 (1990) 154-5.

29. Dictation and redaction: the Iliad and its editors. Classical Antiquity 9 (1990) 326-34.

30. Another path of song: Pindar, Nemean VII 51. American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 301-2.

31. Philodemus' On Poems and Aristotle's On Poets. Cronache Ercolanesi 21 (1991) 5-64.

32. Philodemus resartus: progress in reconstructing the philosophical papyri from Herculaneum. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy VII (1991) 271-308.

33. From catharsis to the Aristotelian mean. In A.O. Rorty (ed.), Essays in Aristotle's 'Poetics', Princeton 1992, 341-58.

34. A first join between PHerc . 411 and 1583 (Philodemus, On Music IV). Cronache Ercolanesi 22 (1992) 123-9.

35. Introducing the Philodemus Translation Project: Reconstructing the On Poems. Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of Papyrology ( Copenhagen 1992), 1995, 367-81.

36. L' Iliade fra dettatura e redazione. [Italian version of no. 29] Atti del 9o Congresso della 'Fédération des Etudes Classiques', Elenchos 1995, 653-71.

37. Reconstructing Philodemus' On Poems. In D. Obbink (ed.), Philodemus and Poetry, Oxford 1995, 69-96.

38. Crates of Mallos, Dionysius Thrax and the Tradition of Stoic Grammatical Theory. In L. Ayres (ed.), The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions Presented to Prof. I.G. Kidd, New Brunswick and London 1995, 213-33.

39. Una ricostruzione di Filodemo, Sui poemi I. [Italian version of no. 37] Epicureismo greco e romano: Atti del Congresso Internazionale Naples 1996, 651-69.

40. Ayios Stephanos: a Bronze Age Village in Laconia. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 41 (1996) 139.

41. Euripides and the Trojan Women. Dionysus 5 (1996) 2-5 [unrefereed journal].

42. Euripides' Medea and the Manipulation of Sympathy. Dionysus 6 (1996) 43-8 [unrefereed journal].

43. The Physicist as Hierophant: Aristophanes, Socrates and the Authorship of the Derveni Papyrus. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118 (1997) 61-94.

44. Literature, Criticism and Authority: the Experience of Antiquity. Council of University Classical Departments Bulletin 26 (1997) 3-19 [unrefereed journal]; partially reprinted in Ad familiares 14 (1998) 10-11.

45. The Homeric poems as oral dictated texts. Classical Quarterly 48 (1998) 1-13.

46. I poemi orali come testi orali dettati. [Italian version of no. 45] In F. Montanari (ed.), Omero: Gli aedi, i poemi gli interpreti ( Florence 1998), 19-40.

47. Aristotle's aesthetic theory: reception in antiquity. In Michael Kelly (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, New York & Oxford 1998, i. 104-6.

48. (With D.L. Blank). Two New Manuscript Sources for the Texts of the Herculaneum Papyri. Cronache Ercolanesi 28 (1998) 173-84.

49. Oedipus, Pericles and the Plague. Dionysus 11 (1999) 15-19 [unrefereed journal].

50. Philodème et l'esthétique de la poésie. In D. Delattre & C. Auvray-Assayas (eds.), Cicéron et Philodème: la polémique en philosophie, Editions Rue d'Ulm, Paris, 2001, 283-96.

51. The Derveni Papyrus (Diagoras of Melos, Apopyrgizontes Logoi ?): a New Translation. Classical Philology 94 (2001) 1-32 .

52. Aristotle on comedy, Aristophanes and some new evidence from Herculaneum . In Øivind Andersen and Jon Haarberg (edd.), Making Sense of Aristotle: Essays in Poetics, London (Duckworth) 2001, 51-71.

53. More of Euripides' Heracles bis in P. Hibeh 179. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 136 (2001) 1-6.

54. Epilegomena. In F. Montanari (ed.), Omero tremila anni dopo, Rome 2002, 653-66.

55. The Derveni Papyrus: an Interim Text. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141 (2002) 1-62.

56. The Herculaneum Library: some recent developments. Estudios Clásicos 44 (2002) 25-41.

57. God, Science and Socrates. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 46 (2002-3), 1-18.

58. Empedocles' Physica Book i : a New Reconstruction. The Empedoclean Kosmos (Proceedings of the Symposium Tertium Philosophiae Antiquae Myconense), ed. A. Pierris, to appear Patras 2005, c. 35 pp.

59. Empedocles' On Nature I 233-364: a New Reconstruction of P. Strasb. Inv. 1665-6. to appear in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2004. c.20 pp and 3 plates

60. Socrates the Freethinker. The Blackwell Companion to Socrates, ed. S. Rappe, Oxford, forthcoming. c.23 pp.

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1. P. Smith, Nursling of Mortality: a study of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Classical Review 31 (1981) 285-6.

2. M. Cantilena, Ricerche sulla dizione epica I. Phoenix 37 (1983) 271-3.

3. H. von Kamptz, Homerische Personennamen. Classical Review 34 (1984) 305-6

4. C.A. Sowa, Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns. Classical Review 35 (1985) 378-9.

5. M.L. West, The Orphic Poems. Classical Philology 81 (1986) 154-9.

6. Omero, Odissea. VI (libri XXI-XXIV). Ed. M. Fernández-Galiano & A. Heubeck. Journal of Hellenic Studies 108 (1988) 218-9.

7. S. Halliwell, Aristotle's Poetics. Classical Philology 84 (1989) 151-9.

8. Homer, The Odyssey. I (Books 1-8). Ed. A. Heubeck, S. West and J.B. Hainsworth; II (Books 9-16). Ed. A. Heubeck and A. Hoekstra. Journal of Hellenic Studies 110 (1990) 205-9.

9. J.S. Clay, The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns. Classical Review 41 (1991) 12-13

10. Homer 1987: Papers of the Third Greenbank Colloquium, ed. J. Pinsent and H.V. Hurt. Classical Review 43 (1993) 417-18.

11. Helmut van Thiel (ed.), Homeri Odyssea. Gnomon 66 (1994) 289-95.

12. C. Mangoni, Filodemo: Il quinto libro della Poetica. Classical Philology 89 (1994) 282-9.

13. R.R. Schlunk (tr.), Porphyry: The Homeric Questions. A Bilingual Edition. Classical Review 45 (1995) 439.

14. H.M. Keizer, Indices in Eustathii Archiepiscopi Thessalonicensis Commentarios ad Homeri Iliadem Pertinentes ad fidem codicis Laurentiani editos a Marchino Van der Valk. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.8 (1995) 698-700.

15. Andrew Ford, Homer: The Poetry of the Past. Mnemosyne 49 (1996) 215-20.

16. André Laks and Glenn W. Most, Studies on the Derveni Papyrus. Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 1998, 26.

17. Ian Morris and Barry Powell, editors, A New Companion to Homer. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9.5.20 (1998), 1-13.

18. Gregory Nagy, Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond. Journal of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998) 206-7.

19. Minne Skafte Jensen and respondents, 'Dividing Homer: when and how were the Iliad and Odyssey divided into songs', in Symbolae Osloenses 74 (1999) 5-91. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.01.5, 1-2.

20. M. L. West (ed.), Homeri Ilias I. Classical Review 50 (2000) 1-4.

21. Andreas Bagordo, Die antiken Traktate über das Drama. Classical World 95 (2002) 190-1.

22. M. L. West (ed.), Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad. Classical World 97 (2003) 100-1.

23. M. L. West (ed. and trans.), Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer, and Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. (Loeb Classical Library, two vols.). Classical Review 55 (2004), 3 pp.

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Contributor to Out of the Ashes: the Hidden Scrolls of Herculaneum, KBYU, broadcast on P.B.S. from Jan. 15, 2004 onwards

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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mycenaean Greek (Graduate Seminar); Ancient Literary Criticism (Graduate Seminar); Classical Civilization 101 (first three weeks, large lecture course); New Texts from Papyri (faculty and student seminar, not for credit); Greek and Latin metre.

Institute of Classical Studies, London, Summer-School in Papyrology, 2003:

The Herculaneum Papyri.

Institute of Classical Studies, London, Summer-School in Linear B, 1998:

The Pylos Flax Tablets, Pylos Bronze and Gold Tablets, Pylos o-ka Tablets, Pylos Land-holding Tablets, Mycenaean geography, Cypro-Minoan Scripts.

University College London, 1995-2002:

Beginning Greek (twice); Advanced Greek (thrice); Greek Comedy or Greek Tragedy in translation (large lecture course, annually); Three Greek Plays (annual year-long course, different plays each year, with additional classes for the M.A. students: Sophocles' Electra, Trachiniae, Euripides' Medea, Heraclidae, Heracles, Electra, Orestes, Bacchae, Aristophanes' Clouds, Birds, Frogs, Menander's Epitrepontes, Samia, Aeschylus' Oresteia ); Life and Death (contributor, 'Journeys to the Underworld' and 'Orphism'); Greek Unseen Translation (twice); Greek Prose Composition (twice); Greek Reading List I (Homer, Odyssey IX-X, Lysias, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Euripides' Hippolytus); Greek Reading List II (Aristotle, Poetics ); Latin Unseen Translation (twice); Latin Reading List I (Vergil, Aeneid VI; Cicero, Letters ); Latin Reading List II (Horace, Ars Poetica, twice); dedicated M.A. courses: Greek Palaeography (shared, twice); Aristotle's Poetics ; Homer (shared, twice); convenor, M.A. Colloquium (M.A. training, initiated the course and ran it twice).

University of California, Los Angeles, 1987-94:

Survey of Greek Civilization (lecture course for 400-500 students, annually); Elementary Greek; Sophocles, Trachiniae; 'Aeschylus', Prometheus Bound; Ancient Literary Criticism; Graduate courses: Colloquium in Classical Scholarship; Advanced Greek Prose Composition; Homer, Iliad; Hesiod; Greek lyric poetry; Pindar; Survey of Greek Literature, Menander to Longinus (twice); M.A. Research Methods (contributor). Direction of Undergraduate theses, c. 3 per year; direction of Ph.D. theses, c. 2 at any given time. Class hours: 6 per week (two terms), 3 per week (one term).

Columbia University, New York, 1982-7:

Literature Humanities (year-long course, annually, Western literature from Genesis to Dostoyevsky, including much Greek literature in translation and works by Vergil, Matthew, Paul, Apuleius, Augustine, Gottfried of Strassburg, Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Descartes, Swift); Homer, Iliad ; Thucydides, Books VI-VII; Archaeology and Language in the Aegean Bronze Age (also Graduate course); Survey of Greek Literature, from Hesiod to Thucydides; Graduate courses: Greek Syntax; Greek Stylistics; Pindar and Bacchylides; Homer, Iliad; Archaic Greek iambic, lyric and elegiac poetry.

University of Cambridge, 1977-8, 1979-82:

Greek and Latin translation and prose composition; Greek poetry, Homer to Hellenistic (supervision for Trinity, Caius, and Corpus Christi Colleges); lectures on Hesiod, Works and Days (jointly with Prof. G.S. Kirk), and Aristotle, Poetics; beginners' courses on Homer, Odyssey XVII-XVIII, and Euripides, Troades. Class hours: 6-7 per week.

University of St Andrews, 1978-9:

Classical Civilization (Greek Literature); Introduction to Indo-European Philology; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica III; Sophocles, Philoctetes; Aristotle, Poetics; beginners' courses on Plato, Apology, Euripides, Alcestis. Class hours: 10-12 per week.

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Columbia University:

Jinyo Kim, 'Achilles' Pity: Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad ', published by Rowan and Littlefield 2000 [now Associate Professor of Classics, City University of New York]

John R. Lenz, 'Kings and the Ideology of Kingship in Early Greece ' [Associate Professor of Classics and Chair, Drew University, N.J.]

University of California, Los Angeles:

Steve Reece, 'The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene', published Ann Arbor 1993 [Associate Professor of Classics, St. Olaf's College, Minnesota]

George Giannakis (jointly with Raimo Anttila), 'Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of the Reduplicated Present in Homeric Greek and Indo-European', published Innsbruck 1997 [Associate Professor of Linguistics and Comparative Philology, University of Ioannina ]

Victor J. Ortiz, 'Hero-Cult in Greek Tragedy' [school-teacher of Classics and Spanish, Los Angeles]

Mary Hart (jointly with Sarah P. Morris), 'The Rape of Cassandra in the Epic Cycle and Vase-Painting', published [Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum]

University College London:

Mike Chappell, 'A Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo', being prepared for publication [Lecturer in Classics, Maynooth, Ireland]

Peter Pickering, 'Verbal Repetition in Greek Tragedy', published as articles in BICS [retired]

Armand D'Angour, 'Ideas of Innovation in the Athens of Aristophanes', accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press [Fellow in Classics, Jesus College, Oxford]

John D. Franklin, 'The Invention of Harmonia' (Ph.D.) [Broneer Fellow, American School of Classical Studies in Athens]

Evelyn Kylintirea, 'Studies in Apollodorus' Biblioteca ' (Ph.D.) [teaching in Greece]

Noriko Yasumura, 'Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry' (Ph.D.) [teaching at Kawasaki University, Japan]

Barbara Smith, 'Female Initiation-Rites in Greek Myth' (Ph.D.), accepted for publication by Duckworth [freelance writer]