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West edited and commented Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days". In 1967, he published with Reinhold Merkelbach "Fragmenta Hesiodea", an edition containing other fragmentary poems attributed to Hesiod. He also edited a book on the fragments of the Hesiodic "Catalogue of Women". West edited Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" for the prestigious Bibliotheca Teubneriana, and the "Homeric Hymns" for the Loeb Classical Library.