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 …

Metapoetry in Euripides is the first detailed study of the self-conscious literary devices
applied within Euripidean drama and how these are interwoven with issues of thematic …

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric “An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted
argument for reversing what 'everybody knows' about the relation of two literary genres that …

The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE seeks to upend conventional thinking
about the development of drama from the fifth to the fourth centuries and to provide a new …

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that
Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring …

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is
perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students …

This study sets out to reveal the groundbreaking use of monody in the late plays of
Euripides: in his hands, it is shaped into a potent and flexible instrument for representing …

This paper explores the aspects of mortal temporal awareness which Eteocles reveals as he
struggles with the paradox that we have epistemic access to the past but not to the future …

Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and
freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. Starting with Sartre's insights about …

Aristophanes' Frogs, first performed in 405 BCE, is an important milestone in Greek cultural
history. The play is evidence of the beginnings of the establishment of a literary canon in …