Stephen Halliwell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3604694 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Halliwell |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Halliwell |
| ASSINATURA | HALLIWELL S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7280-1438 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Metaphorical Mirrors
This article weaves together three main strands: first, the ambiguities of mirror metaphors in relation to concepts of artistic representation and expression; secondly, the double-sided and sometimes paradoxical influence of Plato in this area of aesthetics; thirdly, the need to interpret long-lasting metaphors in the history of ideas not as static figures of speech but as dynamic tropes which shift in sense and implications with changes of conte…
Pseudo-Longinus
Aristophanes
Pseudo-Longinus
Politics in the Street
Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian
This chapter employs a historicising approach to laughter, of the kind elaborated in the same author’s Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity , in order to investigate some important but elusive aspects of the Greek mythico-religious imagination. Its central focus is on depictions of divine laughter at opposite ends of the spectrum of ancient Greek culture, in Homeric epic and Lucianic satire. What does it…
Was Aristotle a Literary Historian?
Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian
An Aristotelian Theory of Communication
Book Review| December 01 2017 An Aristotelian Theory of Communication Zoran, Gabriel, Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2014. xv + 256 pp. Stephen Halliwell Stephen Halliwell University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 769–771. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4184374 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
Fiction
The concept of fiction has evolved historically and cannot be reduced to stipulative definition. Fiction represents a complex zone of narrative possibilities which cuts across a strict dichotomy of truth and falsehood. Greek awareness of fictionality arises in relation to, but is not fully distinct from, ideas of myth and history. Classical thinkers including Gorgias, Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle all develop subtly different, and differently m…
Laughter
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Diegesis – Mimesis
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example …
Frontiers of Pleasure
Peer reviewed
Is there a Poetics in Homer?
This chapter offers a probing reinterpretation of Homeric scenes and motifs relating to poetry (as ‘song’). Among the material considered is Achilles' solo song in Iliad 9, the Greek army's paeans in Iliad 1 and 22, the imagined role of the Muses in the creation of song, the conflicting feelings of Eumaeus in Odyssey 14 and 17 (which are read as displaying an uncertainty about emotional authenticity and narrative truth), and the reactions of Odys…
Setting the Scene
Beyond the Mirror of Nature
The figurative arts, above all painting, constitute an almost ever-present paradigm and point of reference for ancient discussions of mimesis. While poetry may be the artform that commands the most attention, painting and sculpture are seldom far from view: the affinities of poetic and visual mimesis are reflected in the numerous references to visual works of art in texts concerned primarily with literature. The tradition of such appeals goes bac…
Between Ecstasy and TruthInterpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus
This book offers a series of detailed, challenging interpretations of some of the most important texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias' Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' On Poems, and Longinus, On the Sublime. Its fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the value of that experience. The book…
Amousia
This chapter proposes to treat notions of amousia —itself hard to translate by any single term, but embracing various failures and/or refusals to cultivate the values of ‘music’ and the Muses—as a clue to certain Greek ways of thinking which have a special bearing on the problems of aesthetics. It selects evidence from Euripidean and Aristophanic theater to explore some of the ways in which problems of amousia form points of interference within t…
Antidotes And Incantations
It is a factor of cardinal importance not only for the reading of Plato's dialogues but for the whole history of Western aesthetics that as regards the philosophical evaluation of poetry one can identify not just one but two 'Platos', and in consequence two possible Platonisms-two ways of thinking which can both lay claim to some basis within arguments and feelings expressed in Plato's work. Admittedly, it is possible to find passages in Plato wh…
The Republic’s Two Critiques of Poetry (Book II 376c–III 398b, Book X 595a–608b)
Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Traditional Greek Conceptions of Character
In Prodicus’ parable ‘The Choice of Heracles’, epitomized in Xenophon’s Memorabilia (2. 1. 21 33), the figure of Virtue tells the adolescent hero, as he sits contemplating the ethical divergence of’roads’ which defines the possibilities of his adult life: ‘I approach you, Heracles, with knowledge of who your parents were, and having learnt your own nature (phusis) in the course of your education. As a result, I hope that if you take the road whic…
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholar…
Aristophanes' Apprenticeship
The basis of this article is a reconsideration of some old and familiar problems about Aristophanes' early career. In the course of trying to supply firm solutions to these problems I hope also to present evidence for an early and inconspicuous stage in Aristophanes' development as a comic dramatist, and as a reflection on the resulting picture I shall make some general observations on ou understanding of the relationship between the various acti…
Aristophanic Satire
The Uses of Laughter in Greek Culture
The proposition that man is the only animal capable of laughter is at least as old as Aristotle ( Parts of Animals 673a8). In a strictly physical sense, this is probably false; but it is undoubtedly true that as a psychologically expressive and socially potent means of communication, laughter is a distinctively human phenomenon. Any attempt to study sets of cultural attitudes towards laughter, or the particular types of personal conduct which the…
The subjection of muthos to logos
According to Aristotle, Metaphysics (a) 2.3, 995a7–8, there are people who will take seriously the arguments of a speaker (including, it seems, those of a philosopher) only if a poet can be cited as a ‘witness’ in support of them. Aristotle's passing observation sharply reminds us that Greek philosophy had developed within, and was surrounded by, a culture which extensively valued the authority of the poetic word and the poet's ‘voice’ from which…
Ancient Interpretations of νομαστìκωμῳδєȋν in Aristophanes
Interest in νομαστìκωμῳδєȋν began early. Even before the compilation of prosopo-graphical κωμῳδούμєνοɩ in the second century B.C., Hellenistic study of Aristophanes had devoted attention to the interpretation of personal satire. The surviving scholia contain references to Alexandrian scholars such as Euphronius, Eratosthenes and Callistratus which show that in their commentaries and monographs these men had dealt with issues of νομαστì κωμῳδєȋν M…
Aristophanes' Apprenticeship
The basis of this article is a reconsideration of some old and familiar problems about Aristophanes' early career. In the course of trying to supply firm solutions to these problems I hope also to present evidence for an early and inconspicuous stage in Aristophanes' development as a comic dramatist, and as a reflection on the resulting picture I shall make some general observations on ou understanding of the relationship between the various acti…
Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedy
When Plato's and Aristotle's views on poetry are juxtaposed, it is usually for the purpose of contrast. Nowhere does the contrast seem to be so sharp as in the case of tragedy, by which both philosophers, agreeing in this at least, rightly meant Homer's Iliad as well as the plays of the Attic genre specifically given the name. While Plato made tragedy the target of his most fervent attacks on poetry, Aristotle devoted the major part of the Poetic…
Ancient Interpretations of νομαστìκωμῳδєȋν in Aristophanes
Interest in νομαστìκωμῳδєȋν began early. Even before the compilation of prosopo-graphical κωμῳδούμєνοɩ in the second century B.C., Hellenistic study of Aristophanes had devoted attention to the interpretation of personal satire. The surviving scholia contain references to Alexandrian scholars such as Euphronius, Eratosthenes and Callistratus which show that in their commentaries and monographs these men had dealt with issues of νομαστì κωμῳδєȋν M…
Aristophanic Satire
Aristotle's Poetics
The Poetics of Aristotle
Incorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas along with concise and stimulating guidance. A running commentary explains the structure and detail of Aristotle's argument, attempts to provoke further thought about the work's strengths and weaknesses, and offers suggestions on relating the Poetics to later stages of literary theory and practice
Aristotle's poetics
This interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics seeks to demonstrate that it is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art and that it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Stephen Halliwell sets Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system. The core of the book is an appraisal of Aristotle's vi…
Aristotelian Mimesis Reevaluated
Faut-il comprendre la mimesis aristotelicienne comme forme de signification ou comme iconique ?
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary history, theory, and criticism
The Uses of Laughter in Greek Culture
The proposition that man is the only animal capable of laughter is at least as old as Aristotle ( Parts of Animals 673a8). In a strictly physical sense, this is probably false; but it is undoubtedly true that as a psychologically expressive and socially potent means of communication, laughter is a distinctively human phenomenon. Any attempt to study sets of cultural attitudes towards laughter, or the particular types of personal conduct which the…
The Function & Aesthetics of the Greek Tragic Mask
’...il avait le masque de ces différents visages. Ce n’éait pas naturellement, car nature ne lui avait donné que le sien; il tenait donc les autres de l’art’. (Diderot)1
Plato
Plato’s Repudiation of the Tragic
Theories of the tragic are only one species within the genus constituted by concepts of tragedy. The existence of such theories has become especially associated with a line of thought which goes back to German Idealism and Romanticism, and one commonly drawn corollary of this connection is the claim that while ancient Greece created the first and most intense tradition of dramatic tragedy, it lacked anything that can be classified as an explicit …
Plato and Painting
The subjection of muthos to logos
According to Aristotle, Metaphysics (a) 2.3, 995a7–8, there are people who will take seriously the arguments of a speaker (including, it seems, those of a philosopher) only if a poet can be cited as a ‘witness’ in support of them. Aristotle's passing observation sharply reminds us that Greek philosophy had developed within, and was surrounded by, a culture which extensively valued the authority of the poetic word and the poet's ‘voice’ from which…
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Kann man heute noch etwas anfangen mit Aristoteles?
Die Autoren dieses Bandes machen plausibel, dass Aristoteles‘ Denken trotz – oder teilweise sogar aufgrund – zunachst wenig attraktiv erscheinender Differenzen zu philosophischen Grundtendenzen der neuzeitlichen Philosophie und Geistesgeschichte fur heutige Uberlegungen fruchtbar gemacht werden kann, und zwar in der Ontologie und Philosophie des Geistes ebenso wie in der Ethik und Asthetik.
La mimèsis reconsidérée
je vais vous faire part d’une vision assez étrange dont je f u s tourmenté la nuit qui suivit un jour dont j’avais passé la matinée à voir des tableaux et la soirée à lire quelques Dialogues de Platon.Diderot, Salon de 1765, n° 176 La première moitié du livre X de la République fournit un exemple remarquable du caractère « autocorrectif » de la dialectique platonicienne, exemple d’autant plus remarquable qu’il apparaît à la fin d’une œuvre généra…
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more exp…
The Life-and-Death Journey of the Soul
Puis elle commençait à me devenir inintelligible, comme après la métempsycose les pensees d'une existence antèrieure.Proust
Greek Laughter
The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctive institutions for the celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power to …
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Traditional Greek Conceptions of Character
In Prodicus’ parable ‘The Choice of Heracles’, epitomized in Xenophon’s Memorabilia (2. 1. 21 33), the figure of Virtue tells the adolescent hero, as he sits contemplating the ethical divergence of’roads’ which defines the possibilities of his adult life: ‘I approach you, Heracles, with knowledge of who your parents were, and having learnt your own nature (phusis) in the course of your education. As a result, I hope that if you take the road whic…
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholar…
The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato
All narrative discourse, from the simplest to the most sophisticated, imposes a perspectival structure on temporal experience. To that extent, all narrative can be categorised and analysed, as the powerful tools of modern narratology have demonstrated, in terms of the operation of a number of variable features of discursive form and focus. But because narrativity is so ineliminable from the fabric of human awareness, its ramifications have a tend…
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