James Diggle is Professor of Greek and Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens'' College. His publications include Studies on the Text of Euripides (OUP, 1981), The Textual Tradition of Euripides'' Orestes (Oxford University Press, 1991), and Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford University Press, 1994). He was University Orator at Cambridge for eleven years, and has published a selection of his speeches in Cambridge Orations 1982-1993 (Cambridge University Press 0521 466180).