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Book SynopsisThis book studies the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama, and especially how poets and critics use this idea to create a deep temporal sense. All chapters are informed by recent developments in performance studies, and all Greek and Latin is translated.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: what is reperformance? Richard Hunter and Anna Uhlig; Part I. Interpretive Frames: 1. Archives, repertoires, bodies and bones: thoughts on reperformance for classicists Johanna Hanink; 2. Performance, reperformance, preperformance: the paradox of repeating the unique in Pindaric epinician and beyond Felix Budelmann; 3. Thebes on stage, on site, and in the flesh Greta Hawes; Part II. Imagining Iteration: 4. Reperformance, exile, and archive feelings: rereading Aristophanes' Acharnians and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Mario Telò; 5. Models of reperformance in Bacchylides Anna Uhlig; 6. Mimêsis, mortality and reperformance: the dead among the living in Hecuba and Hamlet Karen Bassi; 7. Double act: reperforming history in the Octavia Erica Bexley; Part III. Texts and Contexts: 8. Festival, symposium and epinician (re)performance: the case of Nemean 4 and others Bruno Currie; 9. Comedy and reperformance Richard Hunter; 10. Performance, transmission and the loss of Hellenistic lyric poetry Giambattista D'Alessio; 11. Reperformance and embodied knowledge in Roman pantomime Ruth Webb; Reflections: Is this reperformance? Simon Goldhill.
