'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like...

Shows how the theme of laughter can shed light on ancient Greek ethical values and attitudes to l...

In this sustained interpretation, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that Poetics, despite its laconi...

Incorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who ...

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a...

The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking mate...

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a...

This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramat...

This is the first new edition in English for more than half a century of one of the most influent...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festi...