Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus

Argues that the songs of Pindar and Aeschylus share a "theatrical" spirit that illuminates choral performance in Classical Greece.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

The first book-length comparative study of Pindar and Aeschylus in more than six decades, this volume will appeal to students of Greek poetry and modern performance alike. By addressing commonalities rather than differences, Uhlig offers a novel perspective on poetic performance in the 'song culture' of early fifth-century BC Greece.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Uhlig, Anna (University of California Uhlig, Anna S. Uhlig
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108481830
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48183-0
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights