Stephanie West, (née Pickard) is a British classical scholar specialising in the study of

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

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, and Lycophron.

Career

West went to school at Nottingham Girls' High School. In 1959, West (then Pickard) won the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse while a student at Somerville. She had previously won the First Craven Scholarship. From 1965 to 1967, West was a Mary Ewart Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. From 1966 to 2005, she was a lecturer in classics at

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. From 1981 to 2005, she was also a lecturer in Greek at Keble College, Oxford. She was the Fellow Librarian of Hertford from 1990 to 2005. She is an honorary fellow of Hertford College. In 1990, she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was elected as a Foreign Member of the

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in 2012. In recognition of her work for the college a photograph of West featured in the all-female portrait gallery on the walls of the great hall of Hertford College. The gallery was established in 2014 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first female fellows elected to the college.

Personal life

West met her eventual husband Martin West (d. 2015), a fellow Classicist, in 1960 at a lecture by former chair in Latin

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. The pair married in 1960, in Nottingham, and lived together in Polstead Road, Oxford.

Selected publications

*1967. ''The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer'' *1981. ''Omero, Odissea 1 (libri I-IV)'' *1988. ''A commentary on Homer's Odyssey'' *2002. ''Demythologisation in Herodotus''

References

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