Kate Cook is Associate Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews, UK.
A novel approach to Classical Greek drama: the insights are original, showing that the rhetoric of praise and blame in epic extends into the multidimensional poetics of tragedy. Particularly illuminating is the author’s demonstration that the discourse of women is poeticised in special ways that raise the level of humanism conveyed by tragedy. -- Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA