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    Aristophanes

    This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture…

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    Scholarship and Controversy

    The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them…

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    Poetics of Aristotle

    Stephen Halliwell

    An introduction, translation and commentary providing a reliable version of Aristotle’s Poetics and stimulating guidance to their significance.

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    The Poetics of Aristotle

    Stephen Halliwell

    Epps has attempted to provide a translation of the Poetics to which all students could have access and thus gain a common terminology for this work. He has endeavoured to…

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    Poetics of Aristotle

    Stephen Halliwell

    An introduction, translation and commentary providing a reliable version of Aristotle’s Poetics and stimulating guidance to their significance.

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    Aristotle’s  Poetics

    Stephen Halliwell

    A work of scholarship and analysis.

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    Aristotle"s Poetics

    Stephen Halliwell

    This interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics seeks to demonstrate that it is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art…

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    The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems

    Stephen Halliwell

    Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art…

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    Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

    Stephen Halliwell

    Stephen Halliwell provides the first translation into English of On the Sublime in over fifty years. This volume contains a substantial introduction, which places the treatise in the wider context…

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    The Birds

    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes’ plays were produced for the festival theatre of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and were remarkable for encompassing the whole gamut of humour, from brilliantly inventive fantasy…

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    Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes

    Aristophanes

    This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes’ works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and…

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    Birds and Other Plays

    Aristophanes

    This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the…

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    Greek Homosexuality: with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson

    Sir K. J. Dover (University of St Andrews, UK)

    Previously published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. 2nd edition. Updated with new forewords and postscript.

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    Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity

    Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

    The first attempt to provide an integrated account of the bodily and psychological workings of laughter in ancient Greece. Adopting a wide chronological perspective and dealing with numerous aspects of…

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    Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity

    Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

    The first attempt to provide an integrated account of the bodily and psychological workings of laughter in ancient Greece. Adopting a wide chronological perspective and dealing with numerous aspects of…

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    Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus

    Stephen Halliwell (Professor of Greek, University of St. Andrews.)

    This volume’s fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. Halliwell offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations…

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    Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus

    Stephen Halliwell (Professor of Greek, University of St. Andrews.)

    This volume’s fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. Halliwell offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations…

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    Aristophanes: Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs: A Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes

    Stephen Halliwell (Professor of Greek, Professor of Greek, University of St. Andrews)

    This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes’ works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and…

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    Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

    Written to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir Kenneth Dover, this volume unites the two major elements in his life: the relatively private groundbreaking scholarly work he did on aspects…

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    Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace: A Verse Translation, with Introductions and Notes

    Stephen Halliwell (Wardlaw Professor of Greek Emeritus, Wardlaw Professor of Greek Emeritus, University of St Andrews)

    This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture…

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    Catching a Serial Killer: My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell, subject of the ITV series A Confession

    Stephen Fulcher

    Following the investigation as it develops hour-by-hour, Steve’s gripping inside story of the cat-and-mouse situation that ensues shows how he hunted down Halliwell - his number-one suspect - which led…

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    Marginal Comment: A Memoir Revisited

    Sir K. J. Dover (University of St Andrews, UK),Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews, UK),Dr. Christopher Stray (Honorary Research Fellow, Swansea University, UK)

    Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era…

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    Marginal Comment: A Memoir Revisited

    Sir K. J. Dover (University of St Andrews, UK),Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews, UK),Dr. Christopher Stray (Honorary Research Fellow, Swansea University, UK)

    Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era…

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    Poetics. Longinus: On the Sublime. Demetrius: On Style

    Aristotle,Longinus

    In PoeticsAristotle (384 322 BCE) treats Greek tragedy and epic. The subject of On the Sublime, attributed to an (unidentifiable) Longinus and probably composed in the first century CE is…

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    Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century

    Inessa Medzhibovskaya

    In the broadest sense, this volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy’s program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and…

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    Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century

    Inessa Medzhibovskaya

    In the broadest sense, this volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy’s program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and…

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