A masterly critical edition ... and a learned, comprehensive commentary ... essential reading for anyone working on the history of rhetoric, literary criticism, aesthetics, and the history of the sublime.
Stephen Halliwell has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Birmingham, and St Andrews, and has held visiting professorships in America, Belgium, Canada and Italy. He has published twelve books on ancient Greek literature and philosophy, and is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.