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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises ...

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

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical f...

An introduction, translation and commentary providing a reliable version of Aristotle's Poetics a...

Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 199...