Mary Ebbott is Professor in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her scholarship investigates the Homeric epics and ancient Greek tragedy, especially in terms of performance and oral poetics. She is author of Imagining Illegitimacy in Ancient Greek Literature and coauthor of Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush. She is co-editor of the Homer Multitext.