Stephen Halliwell is Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews. He has also taught at the universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, London and Oxford, has held six visiting professorships in Belgium, Canada, Italy and the USA, and is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Much of his work explores areas of ancient Greek culture in which literature and philosophy interacted and competed. His books include a monograph on Aristotle’s Poetics (1986; reprinted with a new introduction, 1998), two translations of the Poetics (one of them in the Loeb series, 1995), commentaries on Books 5 and 10 of Plato’s Republic (1988, 1993), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002, winner of the Premio Europeo d’Estetica 2008), Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008, winner of the Criticos Prize 2008), Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (2011), and three volumes of verse translations of the complete plays of Aristophanes for the Oxford World’s Classics Series (1997-2024). His edition (with introduction, text, translation and extensive commentary) of pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime, appeared in Italian translation in the Lorenzo Valla series in 2021 and in English, with Oxford University Press, in 2022.
