Euripides

This book was a pleasure to read. Torrance throughout presents the reader with densely packed information, clearly written, laced with good scholarly judgement and ample citation of recent secondary sources … Students and instructors, not just in Classics, will find this an excellent and reliable book that provides a fine introduction to Euripides’ dramatic themes … Torrance’s enthusiasm for her subject shines throughout the volume. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *An excellent general introduction to Euripides – well-written, stimulating and full of ideas. Torrance brings the plays to life and manages to convey a real sense of what was so distinctive about Euripidean drama. – Matthew Wright, Professor of Greek, University of Exeter, UKA book of very high quality, which offers a large audience a highly intellectual introduction. This study indeed pays homage to the many facets of a body of work which is not only well constructed, but which, as Torrance puts it, “has the power to present a very wide range of questions on the human condition”. * Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bloomsbury Translation) *

Isabelle Torrance is Associate Professor of Classics at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes (2007) and of Metapoetry in Euripides (2013), co-author – with A Sommerstein – of Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) and editor of Aeschylus and War: Comparative Perspectives on Seven Against Thebes (2017).