T. C. W. Stinton was a highly respected classical scholar who died in 1985. He was a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, for over thirty years and devoted his life to teaching, inspiring his pupils with his own passionate love for the classics. As well as generously encouraging the work and publications of others, he also spent much time himself in researching and writing, concentrating mainly on Greek tragedy. This volume presents twenty-six of Tom Stinton's essays and reviews, mainly on Greek tragedy, covering his work from 1960 until his death in 1985. The papers include `Euripides and the Judgement of Paris', `The Scope and Limits of Allusion in Greek Tragedy', `The Apotheosis of Heracles from the Pyre', and `Greek Tragic Texts and the Limits of Conservatism'. Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, has written a foreword especially for this collection.

This volume presents some twenty-five papers by the late great scholar T.C.W. Stinton, most previously published only in specialized journals. Dealing with a wide range of topics surrounding Greek tragedy, the papers include discussions of Euripides on the judgement of Paris, Iphigeneia and the bears of Brauron, the riddle at Colonus, Horation echoes, and Phaedrus and folklore.

'meticulous attention to detail ... The Oxford University Press is to be thanked for bringing together in one weighty volume the unfailingly insightful explorations of such a gently humorous, subtle and sensitive interpreter of Greek tragic texts.' Michael Comber, St. John's College, Oxford, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. CXII, 1992