William Allan (classicist)
- William Allan (classicist)
William Allan is a distinguished Scottish classicist specializing in Greek epic and tragedy, particularly the plays of Euripides.
He has published The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2000; paperback edn. 2003), Euripides: The Children of Heracles (Aris and Phillips, 2001), and Euripides: Medea (Duckworth, 2002). He has recently completed a commentary on Euripides' Helen (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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.
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