At 11, he lost a scholarship at Colet Court (now St Paul's Juniors), but was offered a feepaying place instead. Īt the age of 4, West entered the private preparatory school of Denmead. Litchfield was the maiden name of his paternal grandmother. His paternal grandfather, Robert West, lectured in electrical engineering his maternal grandfather, John Stainthorpe, was a railwayman from Pickering. West father's family were from the Home Counties, and his mother's family from Yorkshire and Durham. His parents lived at that time in Orpington, but moved in 1939 to Hampton, where his father was appointed resident engineer at the Metropolitan Water Board-operated waterworks. His younger sister, Jennifer Lesley West (now Bywaters) was born shortly after the war in 1947. Martin Litchfield West was born on 23 September 1937 at Eltham General Hospital ( Eltham, London), the first child of Catherine ( née Baker Stainthorpe) and Maurice Charles West, a civil engineer. Life and career Early life and education A further volume on The Making of the Iliad appeared ten years later, and one on The Making of the Odyssey was published in 2014. West also produced an edition of Homer's Iliad for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, accompanied by a study of its critical tradition and overall philology entitled Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad. West also studied the reconstitution of Indo-European mythology and poetry and its influence on Ancient Greece, notably in the 2007 book Indo-European Poetry and Myth ( IEPM).
This work stems from material in Akkadian, Phoenician, Hebrew, Hittite, and Ugaritic, as well as Greek and Latin. West wrote on ancient Greek music, Greek tragedy, Greek lyric poetry, the relations between Greece and the ancient Near East, and the connection between shamanism and early ancient Greek religion, including the Orphic tradition. In recognition of his contribution to scholarship, he was awarded the Order of Merit in 2014. Martin Litchfield West, OM FBA (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar.
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