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In working always to connect the past, present, and future through the reciprocal influence of ideas, texts, and beliefs, Stewart takes seriously disembodied poetics as devotional practice. * Colin Leach, Classic For All * The Commentary deals generously with content and context, grammar and syntax, in a manner to satisfy the most demanding...By any criterion, an outstanding work of scholarship. * Colin Leach, Classics for All * An exemplary commentary which ... makes a very remarkable contribution to understanding of On the sublime and promises to become an indispensable landmark for studies of ancient literary criticism. * Giovanni Lombardo, Studi di estetica (reviewing the 2021 Italian edition) * On the Sublime is an achievement on a truly monumental scale...pleased to see that Halliwell has, so far as is feasible, done justice to the virtuoso sophistication of pseudo-Longinus' prose. * Greece & Rome *

An exemplary commentary which ... makes a very remarkable contribution to understanding of On the sublime and promises to become an indispensable landmark for studies of ancient literary criticism. * Giovanni Lombardo, Studi di estetica (reviewing the 2021 Italian edition) *

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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.

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