M. L. West's The Orphic Poems is a long-standing tradition in classical philology. Through the nineteenth century, scholars collected fragments of the poems of "orpheus" west: "the difficulty of the enterprise proved such that the whole enterprise has fallen into disrepute"
M. L. West's The Orphic Poems is a long-standing tradition in classical philology. Through the nineteenth century, scholars collected fragments of the poems of "orpheus" west: "the difficult…