Between Ecstasy and Truth

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell''s volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes'' Frogs, Plato''s Republic, Aristotle''s Poetics, Gorgias''...