Rhetoric, drama and their critics: celebrating the work of Malcolm Heath

Description

The project aims to celebrate the contribution to Classics of Malcolm Heath, Professor of Greek Language and Literature Leeds 1988-2022. An outstanding scholar, he was author of 8 monographs, the best-selling Penguin Classics translation of Aristotle’s Poetics, and more than 70 articles ranging across numerous areas of research, in all of which his work has been highly influential.  Our title ‘Rhetoric, drama and their critics’ is an attempt to capture the extraordinary breadth of Prof. Heath’s interests, ranging chronologically and generically from Homeric epic poetry via tragedy, comedy and Aristotelian philosophy to the rhetorical theory of late antiquity. The symposium in May 2026 will provide the basis for an edited volume as a Festschrift in Prof. Heath’s memory.

Publications and outputs

Rhetoric, drama and their critics: a symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath, late emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leeds. (Thursday 21st to Friday 22nd May 2026)

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