• Prolegomena


• 1: Escape-tragedies


• 2: Myth, fiction, innovation


• 3: A tragic landscape


• 4: Tragedy of ideas


• 5: The tragic universe


• Afterword

Matthew Wright is Lecturer in Classics, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter.

This is the first major critical study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Matthew Wright presents a new interpretation of the plays, arguing that they are a thematically connected trilogy. His book offers a fresh approach to Euripides, and to the tragic genre as a whole.