Hellenica: Volume I: EpicMartin West is internationally known as one of the outstanding Classical scholars of our time, and one of the most prolific. Hellenica is a three volume selection of ninety or so of his more notable papers relating to Greek literature and thought. This first volume, Epic, contains thirty essays, including two previously unpublished. It is devoted to early epic, from its Mycenaean and pre Mycenaean roots to its later manifestations in the Homeric Hymns