All Scholars

Monographs

Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971; Italian trans., Bologna, 1993); Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts (Teubner Studienbücher) (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973; Greek trans. Athens, 1989; Italian trans., Palermo, 1991; Hungarian trans., Budapest, 1999); Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 14) (Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1974); Immortal Helen: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 30 April 1975 9 (London: Bedford College, 1975); Greek Metre (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1982); The Orphic Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983; Italian trans., Naples 1993); The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985); Introduction to Greek Metre(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987); Studies in Aeschylus (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 1) (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1990); Ancient Greek Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992; Greek trans., Athens 1999); Die griechische Dichterin: Bild und Rolle (Lectio Teubneriana v) (Stuttgart & Leipzig: Teubner, 1996); The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997); Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Munich: Saur, 2001); Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2007); The Making of the Iliad: Disquisition and Analytical Commentary (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2011); The Epic Cycle: A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2013); The Making of the 'Odyssey' (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2014). 

Editions, Commentaries and Translations

Hesiod, Theogony, ed. with prolegomena and commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966); Fragmenta Hesiodea, ed. with R. Merkelbach (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967); Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 1: Archilochus. Hipponax. Theognidea (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971; rev. ed., 1989); Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2: Callinus. Mimnermus. Semonides. Solon. Tyrtaeus. Minora adespota (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1972; rev. ed., 1992); Sing Me, Goddess. Being the First Recitation of Homer's Iliad (trans.) (London: Duckworth, 1971); Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica (Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 192) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1978); Hesiod, Works and Days, ed. with prolegomena and commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978); Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980); Carmina Anacreontea, (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Leipzig: Teubner, 1984; corrected reprint with addenda, 1993); Euripides, Orestes, ed. with transl. and commentary (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1987); Hesiod, Theogony, and Works and Days, transl. and with an introduction (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1988); Aeschyli Tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1990); Greek Lyric Poetry. The Poems and Fragments of the Greek Iambic, Elegiac, and Melic Poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450 B.C. (trans.) (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1993); Homeri Ilias. Volumen prius rhapsodias I-XII continens, (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Stuttgart & Leipzig: B.G. Teubner 1998); Homeri Ilias. Volumen alterum rhapsodias XIII-XXIV continens, (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Leipzig & Munich: K. G. Saur, 2000); Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (The Loeb Classical Library 496) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2003); Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC, (ed. & trans.) (The Loeb Classical Library 497) (Cambridge, MA, & London: Harvard U. Press, 2003); Barrett, W. S., Greek Lyric, Tragedy, and Textual Criticism: Collected Papers, ed. M. L. West (Oxford & New York, 2007): The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran (Leiden: Brill, 2010); Old Avestan Syntax and Stylistics: With an Edition of the Texts (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011); Homerus, Odyssea, (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017). 

Articles

(Excluding contributions to dictionaries and books and more than 200 articles and papers since 1960).

“Anaxagoras and the Meteorite of 467 B.C.,”  Journal of the British Astronomical Association 70 (1960) 45–6; “An Ancient Reference to the Quadrantids,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 71(1961) 104; “Alleged Apparitions of Halley's Comet in the Eighteenth Century B.C. and Earlier,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 71 (1961) 324–6; “Hesiodea,” CQ 11 (1961) 130-45; “Two Versions of 'Jabberwocky’,” G&R 11 (1964) 185–7; (1964); “The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts of Hesiod's Theogony,” CQ 14 (1964) 165–89; “Conjectures on 46 Greek Poets,” Philologus 110 (1966) 147–68; “The Contest of Homer and Hesiod,” CQ 17 (1967): 433–50; “Lidell and Scott,” Gnomon 40 (1968) 224; “Notes on the Orphic Hymns,” CQ 18 (1968) 288–96; “Near Eastern Material in Hellenistic and Roman Literature,” HSCP 73 (1969) 113–34; “Note: Hesiod, Fragmenta, Again,” CR 20 (1970) 416;  “Note on a Note,” JHS 91 (1971) 143; “Stesichorus,” CQ 21 (1971) 302–14; “The Cosmology of 'Hippocrates', De Hebdomadibus,” CQ 21 (1971): 365–88; “Indo-European Metre,” Glotta 51 (1973) 161–87; “Greek Poetry 2000-700 B. C.,” CQ 23 (1973) 179–92; “The Medieval Manuscripts of the Works and Days,” CQ 24 (1974): 161–85; “Stesichorus at Lille,” ZPE 29 (1978) 1–4; “Four Hellenistic First Lines Restored,” CQ 29 (1979) 324–6; , “The Prometheus Trilogy,” JHS  99 (1979) 130–48; “Three Topics in Greek Metre,” CQ 32 (1982) 281–97; “Problems in the Anacreontea,” CQ 34 (1984) 206–21; “Hesiod's Titans,” JHS 105 (1985) 174–5; “The Rise of the Greek Epic,” JHS 108 (1988) 151–72; “Notes on Sappho and Alcaeus,” ZPE 80 (1990) 1–8; “Analecta Musica,” ZPE 92 (1992)1–54; “Simonides Redivivus,” ZPE 98(1993) 1–14; “Some Oriental Motifs in Archilochus,” ZPE 102 (1994) 1–5; “The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts,” Music & Letters 75 (1994): 161–79; “Ab ovo: Orpheus, Sanchuniathon, and the Origins of the Ionian World Model,” CQ 44 (1994) 289–307; “The Date of the Iliad,” MH 52 (1995) 203–19; “Akkadian Poetry: Metre and Performance,” IRAQ 59 (1997) 175–87; “The Invention of Homer,” CQ 49 (1999) 364–82; “The Name of Aphrodite,” Glotta 76 (2000) 134–8; “Some Homeric Words,” Glotta 77 (2001) 118–35; “Rhapsodes at Festivals,” ZPE 173 (2010) 1–13; “Nine Poems of Sappho,” ZPE 191 (2014) 1–12.