Anna Uhlig
Biographic Data
| ID | 5636122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Uhlig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Uhlig |
| SIGNATURE | UHLIG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar
This paper explores the category of neighbor from a literary-critical perspective. Hesiod’s depiction in Works and Days of the relationships between neighbors as characterized by random proximity and uncertain ethical status is adopted as a frame for understanding the stylistic approach of the epic poet and the affinities that Pindar’s epinicians show to his work. A case is made for the interpretive utility of the lateral and arbitrary structure …
Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus
What would Pindar and Aeschylus have talked about had they met at some point during their overlapping poetic careers? How do we map the space shared by these two fifth-century choral poets? In the first book-length comparative study of Pindar and Aeschylus in over six decades, Anna S. Uhlig pushes back against the prevailing tendency to privilege interpretive frames that highlight the differences in their works. Instead, she adopts a more inclusi…
Seeing Slaves in Aeschylean Satyr Drama
This article explores the thematization of the satyrs’ proverbial slave status with specific reference to Aeschylean satyr play. A survey of the extant fragments reveals only one explicit mention of the satyrs’ slavery, suggesting a stark contrast with the relatively frequent references in the satyr plays of Sophocles and Euripides. Situating Aeschylus’ often enigmatic satyr fragments within the broader historical framework of fifth-century Athen…
Introduction
For a fifth-century Athenian who regularly attended the tragic productions mounted at the City Dionysia each spring, there will have been few theatrical roles more familiar than that of the satyr chorus. Whatever identities the chorus may have assumed in the preceding three tragedies, the end of the day would find these citizen-performers transformed into satyrs—the mythical creatures, half-horse, half-man, who served and celebrated Dionysus and …
Sailing and Singing
This chapter suggests that it is time to take a new look at Alcaeus’ so-called ‘ship of state’ poems. Although few scholars now question that these poems should be read allegorically, this consensus is a relatively recent phenomenon, due, it is contended, to a desire to situate the poems in a historical performance context (whether political or otherwise) that is now lost to us. The interpretative emphasis on conditions of performance context obs…
Aeschylus and His Afterlife in the Classical Period
Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture
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 …
Pindar’s Library
Reviewed by: Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts by Tom Phillips Anna Uhlig Tom Phillips. Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x, 330. $125.00. ISBN 978-0-19-874573-0. What was it like to read Pindar in antiquity? To sit before a scroll and contemplate the opening priamel of Olympian 1 (Ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ . . .) as a series of marks forme…
A poetic possession
What does it mean to write a life? For most of us, our initial tendency is to conceive of biography in terms of genre. We look, with Momigliano, for ‘an account of the life of a man from birth to death’. But Aristotle's insight that the full span of a single life is not the only, or best, means of achieving a totality is no less relevant to the study of biography than to the epics about which the judgement was originally conceived. The form of a …
Satyric Play
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 177 portant sur la base de données, aucune attention n’a été portée spécifiquement aux discours répétés : l’acte de langage de Télémaque envers Pénélope, un ordre (Od. 21.350–353 cité 19, 81), répète avec une variation minime des paroles adressées par Hector à Andromaque (Il. 6.490–493) et déjà prononcées par Télémaque lui-même (Od. 1.356–359). Ces deux références ne figurent pas dans l’index du livre, mais on les trou…
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Satyric Play
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 177 portant sur la base de données, aucune attention n’a été portée spécifiquement aux discours répétés : l’acte de langage de Télémaque envers Pénélope, un ordre (Od. 21.350–353 cité 19, 81), répète avec une variation minime des paroles adressées par Hector à Andromaque (Il. 6.490–493) et déjà prononcées par Télémaque lui-même (Od. 1.356–359). Ces deux références ne figurent pas dans l’index du livre, mais on les trou…
A poetic possession
What does it mean to write a life? For most of us, our initial tendency is to conceive of biography in terms of genre. We look, with Momigliano, for ‘an account of the life of a man from birth to death’. But Aristotle's insight that the full span of a single life is not the only, or best, means of achieving a totality is no less relevant to the study of biography than to the epics about which the judgement was originally conceived. The form of a …
Aeschylus and His Afterlife in the Classical Period
Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture
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 …
Pindar’s Library
Reviewed by: Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts by Tom Phillips Anna Uhlig Tom Phillips. Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x, 330. $125.00. ISBN 978-0-19-874573-0. What was it like to read Pindar in antiquity? To sit before a scroll and contemplate the opening priamel of Olympian 1 (Ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ . . .) as a series of marks forme…
Sailing and Singing
This chapter suggests that it is time to take a new look at Alcaeus’ so-called ‘ship of state’ poems. Although few scholars now question that these poems should be read allegorically, this consensus is a relatively recent phenomenon, due, it is contended, to a desire to situate the poems in a historical performance context (whether political or otherwise) that is now lost to us. The interpretative emphasis on conditions of performance context obs…
Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus
What would Pindar and Aeschylus have talked about had they met at some point during their overlapping poetic careers? How do we map the space shared by these two fifth-century choral poets? In the first book-length comparative study of Pindar and Aeschylus in over six decades, Anna S. Uhlig pushes back against the prevailing tendency to privilege interpretive frames that highlight the differences in their works. Instead, she adopts a more inclusi…
Seeing Slaves in Aeschylean Satyr Drama
This article explores the thematization of the satyrs’ proverbial slave status with specific reference to Aeschylean satyr play. A survey of the extant fragments reveals only one explicit mention of the satyrs’ slavery, suggesting a stark contrast with the relatively frequent references in the satyr plays of Sophocles and Euripides. Situating Aeschylus’ often enigmatic satyr fragments within the broader historical framework of fifth-century Athen…
Introduction
For a fifth-century Athenian who regularly attended the tragic productions mounted at the City Dionysia each spring, there will have been few theatrical roles more familiar than that of the satyr chorus. Whatever identities the chorus may have assumed in the preceding three tragedies, the end of the day would find these citizen-performers transformed into satyrs—the mythical creatures, half-horse, half-man, who served and celebrated Dionysus and …
Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar
This paper explores the category of neighbor from a literary-critical perspective. Hesiod’s depiction in Works and Days of the relationships between neighbors as characterized by random proximity and uncertain ethical status is adopted as a frame for understanding the stylistic approach of the epic poet and the affinities that Pindar’s epinicians show to his work. A case is made for the interpretive utility of the lateral and arbitrary structure …
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