The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

Voice connects our embodied existence with the theoretical worlds we construct. This book argues that the voice is a crucial element of mortal identity in the tragedies of Aeschylus. It first presents conceptions of the voice in ancient Greek poetry and philosophy, understanding it in its most literal and physical form, as well as through the many metaphorical connotations that spring from it. Close readings then show how the tragedies and fragments of Aeschylus gain meaning from the rubric and performance of voice, concentrating particularly on the Oresteia. Sarah Nooter demonstrates how voice - as both a bottomless metaphor and performative agent of action - stands as the prevailing configuration through which Aeschylus' dramas should be heard. This highly original book will interest all those interested in classical literature as well as those concerned with material approaches to the interpretation of texts

Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library) · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Metaphor · Performative utterance · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Aeschylus · ancient · Criticism and interpretation · General · Greek drama · Greek drama (Tragedy) · Greek drama, history and criticism · History · History and criticism · Voice in literature

• Beyond Death in the Oresteia

  Open Access•Amit Shilo•Beyond Death in the Oresteia•2022

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• Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus

  Open Access•Anna Uhlig•Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar…•2019

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• Ancient Plays

  Timothy Moore•Greek and Roman Musical Studies•2022

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• Martha Graham’s Radical Reception of the Women of Greek Tragedy

  Open Access•Nina Papathanasopoulou•Humanities•2026

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• Reported Speech in Greek Tragedy

  James Clark, James T Clark•Illinois Classical Studies•2020

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• Murder, Logic, and Embryology

  Dimitrios Iordanoglou, Johan Tralau•Classical Philology•2022

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• Hearing with the Mind’s Eye

  Jenni Glaser•Classical Philology•2026

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• Choral Constructions in Greek Culture

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• Archive Feelings

  Open Access•Mario Telo•Archive Feelings•2020

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• Orestes and Electra’s Prayer Practices as Instructions to the City

  Open Access•Victoria Pichugina•Vestnik of Saint Petersburg…•2023

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• The War-Trumpet and the Sound of Domination in Ancient Greek Thought

  Sarah Nooter•Greek and Roman Musical Studies•2019

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• Sound and the Sublime in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

  Ella Haselswerdt•The American Journal of Philology•2019

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• The authenticity of "Prometheus bound"

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• The acoustic mirror

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• A commentary on the fourth Pythian ode of Pindar

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• Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

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• The Politics of the New Music

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• Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs

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• A Voice and Nothing More

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• Powers of Horror

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• Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy

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• Metaphor, with a Note on Transference of Epithets

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• Gorgias and the Psychology of the Logos

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• Poetologische Bildersprache in der frühgriechischen Dichtung

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• Die Geburt der Tragödie

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• The Oresteia

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• The Erinyes in the Oresteia

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• Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

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• The Language of Sophocles

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• Making Men

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• Reading Greek Tragedy

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• Language, Sexuality, Narrative

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• Intimate Commerce

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• When Heroes Sing

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• Inventing the barbarian

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• The language of heroes

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• Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia

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• The Voice in the Mask

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• Greek Lyric Metre

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• Aeschylus' Eumenides

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• The First Stasimon of Aeschylus' Choephori

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• Suppliant Danaids and Argive Nymphs in Aeschylus

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• Twenty-five notes on pseudoscript in Italian art

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• Principles of Phonology

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• Language as Imitation

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• Kassandra's Glossolalia

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• The Author of the Prometheus Bound

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• The Delphic Oracle. Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses

  Jon D Mikalson, Joseph Fontenrose•The Classical World•1980

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• Aeschylean Metaphors for Intellectual Activity

  Theodore A Tarkow, David Sansone•The Classical World•1977

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• Interaction in Poetic Imagery with Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry

  Hugh Parry, M S Silk•The Classical World•1976

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• Metrical Observations on Aesch. Pers. 922–1001

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• Eumenides in Greek Tragedy

  Open Access•A L Brown, Alan Brown•The Classical Quarterly•1984

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• La divination dans les chœurs de l'Agamemnon d'Eschyle

  Francisco Rodríguez Adrados•Revue des Études Grecques•1989

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• Prayer in Greek Religion

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• The Messenger and Eteocles in the Seven against Thebes

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• The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition

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• Chor und tragische Handlung im "Agamemnon" des Aischylos

  Rainer Thiel•Chor und Tragische Handlung Im…•1993

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• Aeschylus' Oresteia

  Ann N Michelini, D J Conacher•The Classical World•1989

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• Deinon Eribremetas

  Elizabeth Scharffenberger•The Classical World•2007

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• The “aetiology” of tragedy in the Oresteia

  Open Access•Peter Wilson, Oliver Taplin•Proceedings of the Cambridge…•1994

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• Notes on the Oresteia

  Open Access•Alan H Sommerstein•Bulletin of the Institute of…•1980

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• Whom Gods Destroy

  Jeffrey L Buller, Ruth Padel•The Classical World•1997

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• Stagecraft in the Oresteia

  David Sider•The American Journal of Philology•1978

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• Cledonomancy in the Oresteia

  John Peradotto, John J Peradotto•The American Journal of Philology•1969

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• Prayer and Curse in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes

  Eva Stehle•Classical Philology•2005

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• The Influence of Old Comedy on Aeschylus' Later Trilogies

  C J Herington•Transactions and Proceedings of…•1963

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• The Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Aeschylus

  Peter S Miller, Philip S Miller et al.•The Classical Weekly•1943

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• The Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus

  Milton W Humphreys, T G Tucker•The Classical Weekly•1909

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• Ritual Appropriateness in Seven Against Thebes. Civic Religion in a Time of War

  Manuela Giordano-Zecharya•Mnemosyne•2006

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• Resonance

  Open Access•Sean Gurd, Sean Alexander Gurd•Ramus•2013

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• Aeschylus, the Creator of Tragedy

  Eugene O’neill, Eugene O'Neill Eugene O'Neill et al.•The Classical Weekly•1941

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• Studies in Aeschylus

  Martin L West•Studies in Aeschylus•1990

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• The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles

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• Characterization of Sound in Early Greek Literature

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• Silence in the Land of Logos

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• The Getty Hexameters

  Christopher A Faraone, Dirk Obbink•The Getty Hexameters•2013

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• Aeschylus, Euripides, and Tragic Painting

  Patrick O’sullivan, Patrick O'Sullivan•The American Journal of Philology•2008

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• Some Patterns of Nature Imagery in the Oresteia

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• Aeschylus and Athens. A Study in the Social Origins of Drama

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• Aeschylus' Oresteia

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• The Theme of Corrupted Xenia in Aeschylus' Oresteia

  Paul A Roth, Paul Roth•Mnemosyne•1993

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• The Gorgons’ Lament

  Deborah Steiner•The American Journal of Philology•2013

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• The Voice of the Actor in Greek Tragedy

  Zoja Pavlovskis•The Classical World•1977

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• Figures in the Text

  Gloria Ferrari•Classical Philology•1997

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• Aristophanes and the Comic Hero

  Cedric H Whitman•Aristophanes and the Comic Hero•1964

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• Aeschyli Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias

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• The Songs of Aristophanes

  L Parker, L P E Parker et al.•The Classical World•2000

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• The Many-Headed Muse

  Open Access•Pauline A LeVen•Many-Headed Muse•2014

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• The Lyric Metres of Greek Drama

  Richmond Lattimore, A M Dale•The American Journal of Philology•1951

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• Ancient Greek Music

  M L West•Ancient Greek music•1992

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• Ululations from the Weyewa Highlands (Sumba)

  Joel C Kuipers•Ethnomusicology•1999

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• The phenomenon of life

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• A thousand plateaus

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• I. Eros and the Female in Greek Political Thought

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• Staging the Ephebeia

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• Under the Sign of the Shield

  Simon Goldhill, Froma I Zeitlin•Phoenix•1986

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• The Harmony of Aeschylus

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• Exchange and the Maiden

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• "Choral Voice and Narrative in the First Stasimon of Aeschylus "Agamemnon

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• The Discipline of Culturology

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• The Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants

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• Distant Ventriloquism

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• Contact and Discontinuity

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