Awards and Honours
- 2000 Balzan Prize for Classical Antiquity
- 2002 Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies from the British Academy.
- 2007 A book of essays on ancient Greek literature written for West on his 70th birthday
West is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Corresponding member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen, and a member of the Academia Europaea, London.
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