Stephen Halliwell

Stephen Halliwell is Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, has taught in the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge, and Birmingham, and has held visiting professorships in Belgium, Canada, Italy, and the USA. His extensive interests in Greek literature, philosophy, and culture stretch all the way from Homer to the literature (both pagan and Christian) of the Roman empire. His publications include two prize-winning books: Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (Criticos Prize 2008), and The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Premio Europeo d'Estetica, 2008). Among his other books are a monograph on Aristotle's Poetics (1986, 1998), the Loeb Library translation of Aristotle's Poetics (1995), commentaries on books 5 and 10 of Plato's Republic (1988, 1993), Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (2011), a large-scale commentary on the ancient treatise On the Sublime (published first in Italian translation, in the Lorenzo Valla series, in 2021, and in English by Oxford University Press in 2022), and verse translations of the complete plays of Aristophanes for the Oxford World's Classics series (Birds and Other Plays, 1997; Frogs and Other Plays, 2016; Acharnians, Knights, Wasps and Peace, 2022, to appear in World's Classics in 2023). He has given over 200 invited research lectures in twenty countries.