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Name
  
William (classicist)

Role
  
Classicist

Education
  
University of Oxford


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Books
  
Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Homer: The Iliad, Euripides: Medea

William R. Allan (born 1970) is a Scottish classicist specializing in Greek epic and tragedy, particularly the plays of Euripides. He is currently McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at University College, Oxford and Lecturer, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University.

Contents

William Allan (classicist) Classical Literature A Very Short Introduction William Allan

Background

He was educated at Glenrothes High School in Fife, then studied at the University of Edinburgh.

Works

  • The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2000; paperback edn. 2003)
  • Euripides: The Children of Heracles (Aris and Phillips, 2001)
  • Euripides: Medea (Duckworth, 2002)
  • Helen (Cambridge University Press, 2008). commentary
  • References

    William Allan (classicist) Wikipedia