• Martin Litchfield West, OM FBA (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar. In recognition of his contribution to...
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  • the extent of this influence is widely debated. The classicist Martin Litchfield West states, "contact with oriental cosmology and theology helped to...
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    Martin Litchfield West, The Orphic Poems, 1983. Martin Litchfield West, Early Greek philosophy and the Orient, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971. Martin Litchfield...
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  • West (actor) (1937–2019), American actor Martin Litchfield West (1937–2015), classical scholar Martin West (writer), Canadian writer This disambiguation...
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    ascribed to Homer. These influences are detailed by Martin Litchfield West in The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. According...
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    literature]. Martin Fitzgerald (2000). Orson Welles: The Pocket Essential Guide. Summersdale Publishers LTD – ROW. ISBN 9781848396807. Martin Litchfield West (1984)...
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    note series is alternatively described by Egert Pöhlmann [de] and Martin Litchfield West as corresponding "to a segment from the Ionian scale". R. P. Winnington-Ingram...
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    sort of reminder of the prophetess of olden times. The scholar Martin Litchfield West writes that the Pythia shows many traits of shamanistic practices...
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  • Pherecydes took Ophion and the Ophionidae from the Phoenicians. Ophites Martin Litchfield West, "Three Presocratic Cosmologies." In: The Classical Quarterly. 13(2)...
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    of the dismemberment and cannibalism of Dionysus by the Titans. Martin Litchfield West also asserts this in relation to shamanistic initiatory rites of...
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