Pietro Pucci is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics Emeritus at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Odysseus Polutropos: Intertexual Readings in the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad," The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea, and Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: Oedipus Tyrannus in Modern Criticism and Philosophy.