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In this concise introduction, Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance. Engaging with issues of social context, performance theory, 5th-century philosophy and religion, textual criticism, and reception, the author presents an astute guide to the Euripidean corpus from the widely read ´Medea´ to the lesser-known and deeply ambiguous ´Alcestis´.

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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).

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