Stephen Halliwell

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Stephen Halliwell (born October 18, 1953 ) is a British classical philologist ( Graecist ).

Life

Stephen Halliwell studied Classics at Oxford and received his PhD with a dissertation on Aristophanes from Kenneth Dover . Halliwell then taught at the Universities of Oxford, London , Cambridge (where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College ) and Birmingham , before moving to St. Andrews University in 1995.

He has six guest professorships at the University of Chicago (1990), the University of California at Riverside , the University of Rome (1998), McMaster University (2009), Université Catholique de Louvain (2010) and Cornell University . He has given around 200 lectures in 17 countries by invitation and his work has been translated into seven languages. He has been a member of the British Academy since 2014 .

Research priorities

Halliwell's research focuses on Greek literature , especially Greek comedy and tragedy, on philosophical poetics and aesthetics ( Aristotle , Poetics ; Plato , Politeia ; Pseudo-Longinus , On the Sublime ) and on the reception of Greek texts and ideas in European culture , especially the reception of the Greeks in Nietzsche . In addition, he has submitted numerous translations (Aristotle's Poetics even twice; Plato, Politeia books 5 and 10; a number of Aristophanes' comedies, including several verse translations).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus. Oxford University Press 2011. - Review by: Anna Uhlig, sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 5 [15. May 2013], (online)
  • Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2008, ISBN 9780521717748 . - Review by Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 09/69/2009 ; Pierre Destrée, in: Philosophy in Review 30, 2010, No. 4, 269-271, (online) .
  • The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems. Princeton University Press 2002.
    • Italian translation: L'Estetica della Mimesis: testi antichi e problemi moderni. Aesthetica Edizioni, Palermo 2009.
  • Aristotle's Poetics. Duckworth, London 1986, reprinted 1998, table of contents

Editorships

  • with Alan Sommerstein, J. Henderson and Bernhard Zimmermann (Eds.): Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis. Papers from the Greek Drama Conference, Nottingham, 18-20 July 1990. Levante Editori, Bari 1993.

Translations

  • Aristotle, Poetics (with Longinus, On the Sublime and Demetrius, On Style ) (= Loeb Classical Library , L 199). Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass. 1995.
  • Plato, Republic 10 . With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Aris and Phillips, London 1988.
  • The Poetics of Aristotle. Translation and Commentary. Duckworth, London 1987.

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personal data
SURNAME Halliwell, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halliwell, Francis Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1953