I am a math undergrad, I know some basics of algebraic geometry and hence, elliptic curves. I was attending a talk today which was about Poncelet's theorem. In the end of the talk, the speaker discussed complex elliptic curves and wrote
$$\Bbb{C}/\Lambda \simeq \text{torus}$$ i.e. complex elliptic curves are tori. Where $\Lambda$ is a lattice in $\Bbb{C}$.
Is there an intuitive explanation to this? I know some basics of quotient topology and elliptic curves.