Malcolm Heath

Malcolm Frederick Heath (* 1957 ) is a British Graecist .

Life

After attending Harrow School , studying at Oxford , which he graduated with a BA in 1980 , and his PhD in 1984, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Hertford College for three years . He then taught at St Andrews for a year . In 1988 he moved to Leeds , where he was appointed Reader in 1991 and Professor of Greek Language and Literature in 2002.

Heath founded the online journal Leeds International Classical Studies in 2002 .

Research priorities

Heath works on the poetics of Greek tragedy and on Greek poetics and literary theory as a whole (especially Aristotle , poetics ), on the comedy of Aristophanes as well as on rhetoric from the imperial and late antique periods ( Hermogenes , Menander Rhetor ).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Ancient Philosophical Poetics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013,  (online) .
• Menander. A rhetor in context. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004. - Review by Laurent Pernot, in: Rhetorical Review 5, 2007, pp. 7-10, (online) (PDF).
• Interpreting Classical Texts. London 2002. - Review by Janet Sullivan, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.17.2003 .
• Unity in Greek Poetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1989.
• Political Comedy in Aristophanes. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987 (Hypomnemata, Vol. 87).
• The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London 1987, (online) .

Editorships

• Leeds International Classical Studies (online journal, since 2002)

Translations

• Aristotle, Poetics . Translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath. Penguin, London 1996.
• Hermogenes On Issues . Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995.
• Aphthonius Progymnasmata , (online) .

Web links

• University of Leeds: Personal Page .
• academia.edu : Personal page .
• philpapers: directory of articles and reviews by Heath .