Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus

Anna S. Uhlig is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis, where she is also a member of the Graduate Group in Performance Studies. Her research focuses on the performance culture of Greek lyric and dramatic poetry in the archaic and classical periods. She has published on a wide range of topics related to ancient Greek song and is co-editor (with Richard Hunter) of Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture: Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric (Cambridge, 2017).

• Introduction: Pindar and Aeschylus in dialogue; 1. Voices of others: embedded speech in Pindar and Aeschylus; 2. Anachronistic harmonies: Agamemnon parodos, Pythian 4; 3. Vocal tools: Pythian 12, Olympian 13, Seven Against Thebes; 4. Somatic semblances: Choephoroi, Olympian 8, Pythian 2; 5. Locating the revenant: Pythian 8, Persians.

'… should prove worthwhile and fascinating for specialists in both early fifth-century literature and classical performance studies.' David Studdard, Classics for All