This book offers a series of studies of the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama. Special attention is paid to the range of phenomena which fall under the heading 'reperformance', to how poets use both the reality and the 'imaginary' of reperformance to create a deep temporal sense in their work and to how audiences use their knowledge of reperformance conditions to interpret what they see and hear. The studies range in scope from Pindar and fifth-century tragedy and comedy to the choral performances and reconstructions of the Imperial Age. All chapters are informed by recent developments in performance studies, and all Greek and Latin is translated.
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A theoretically informed, up-to-date study of the idea and practice of reperformance in ancient poetry.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: What Is Reperformance? |
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PART I INTERPRETIVE FRAMES |
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1 Archives, Repertoires, Bodies, and Bones: Thoughts on Reperformance for Classicists |
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2 Performance, Reperformance, Preperformance: The Paradox of Repeating the Unique in Pindaric Epinician and Beyond |
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3 Thebes on Stage, on Site, and in the Flesh |
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PART II IMAGINING ITERATION |
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4 Reperformance, Exile, and Archive Feelings: Rereading Aristophanes' Acharnians and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus |
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5 Models of Reperformance in Bacchylides |
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6 Mimesis and Mortality: Reperformance and the Dead among the Living in Hecuba and Hamlet |
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7 Double Act: Reperforming History in the Octavia |
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PART III Texts and Contexts |
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8 Festival, Symposium, and Epinician (Re)performance: The Case of Nemean 4 and Others |
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9 Comedy and Reperformance |
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10 Performance, Transmission, and the Loss of Hellenistic Lyric Poetry |
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11 Reperformance and Embodied Knowledge in Roman Pantomime |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index of Passages Discussed |
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Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. His most recent books include Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (Cambridge, 2012), Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days (Cambridge, 2014) and Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IV (Cambridge, 2015). Anna Uhlig is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. She has published on Greek lyric and dramatic poetry of the Archaic and Classical periods, and is completing a study of Pindar and Aeschylus.
