Praise and blame in Greek tragedy

Preview   Kate Cook’s monograph weaves together three complementary approaches. In the 1970s Marcel Detienne[1] and Gregory Nagy[2] drew attention to the role of archaic poetry in allocating praise and blame, kleos and oneidos, with the former bestowing lasting fame and the latter oblivion.[3] Subsequently John Herington[4] and Laura Swift [5] studied the traces of … Continue reading Praise and blame in Greek tragedy