Stephanie West

Stephanie Roberta West ( Pickard; 1 December 1937) is a British classical scholar specialising in the study of Homer, Herodotus, and Lycophron.

Early life and education Stephanie Roberta Pickard was born on 1 December 1937. She was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School, an independent school in Nottingham. She studied Literae humaniores (i.e. classics) at Somerville College, Oxford, achieving first class honours in mods in 1958 and in greats in 1960. having previously won the First Craven Scholarship.

Academic career 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 Hertford College, Oxford. From 1981 to 2005, she was also a lecturer in Greek at Keble College, Oxford. 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.

Personal life West met her eventual husband Martin West (d. 2015), a fellow Classicist, in 1960 at a lecture by former chair in Latin Eduard Fraenkel at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The pair married in 1960, in Nottingham, and lived together in Portland Road, Oxford. Together, they had one daughter and one son.

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