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An important and thoughtful analysis of the relationship between politics and aesthetic form in a select number of Euripidean plays. . . . An insightful study that is accessible to students and rewarding for scholars. It makes a major contribution to the study of Euripidean drama and offers a productive model for rethinking how tragedy worked through aesthetic form. ---David Kawalko Roselli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Wohl is a careful reader of Euripides and she advances cogent observations and arguments, many about more than just the formal aspects of his plays. * Choice *

"""Wohl is a careful reader of Euripides and she advances cogent observations and arguments, many about more than just the formal aspects of his plays."" * Choice * ""An important and thoughtful analysis of the relationship between politics and aesthetic form in a select number of Euripidean plays. . . . An insightful study that is accessible to students and rewarding for scholars. It makes a major contribution to the study of Euripidean drama and offers a productive model for rethinking how tragedy worked through aesthetic form.""---David Kawalko Roselli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"

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Victoria Wohl is professor of classics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy, Love among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (Princeton), and Law's Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory. She is also the editor of Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought.

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