Julius Guidorizzi

Giulio Guidorizzi was a professor at the University of Turin, teaching Greek Literature and Anthropology of the Ancient World.
Among his most recent works: The Sea of ​​the Gods (with Silvia Romani, Cortina, 2021), The Secret Plot of the World. Magic in Antiquity (Il Mulino, 2019), Ulysses. The Last of the Heroes (Einaudi, 2018), The Great Tale of the Trojan War (Il Mulino, 2018), I, Agamemnon (Einaudi, 2016), The Colors of the Soul. The Greeks and the Passions (Cortina, 2017).
He has translated, in addition to Euripides' The Bacchae , Heracles , Trojan Women , and Ion , the Anonymous of The Sublime and the Greek Lyrics, Apollodorus' Library (1996), and Hyginus' Myths (2000).
He is the editor of an edition of Aristophanes' Clouds (with D. Del Corno, 1996), of an Introduction to Greek Theatre (2003), and of Sophocles ' Oedipus at Colonus (with G. Avezzù and G. Cerri, Milan 2008). He is also the author of various versions of Greek Literature for schools and universities.
In 2013, he won the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize for nonfiction with The Soul's Companion. The Greeks and the Dream and the De Sanctis Prize (short essay category) for the Introduction to The Greek Myth (Gli eroi). He is co-director of the journal «Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica».
Other titles include Myths of the Stars (Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2023), The Lexicon of the Greeks. A Civilization in 30 Words (Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2024).