About

Anna Uhlig is an Associate Professor of Classics at UC Davis and serves as the Director of the Classics Program and an Undergraduate Advisor. She joined UC Davis in 2013 after holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her educational background includes a PhD from Princeton University obtained in 2011, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and a first-class B.A. from King's College Cambridge in 2004. Her research focuses on questions of performance and poetics in the Greek Mediterranean, exploring themes related to theatrical reenactment, gender, and bodily representation in ancient Greek culture. She has contributed to the field through her publications, including a book titled 'Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus' and edited volumes on ancient Greek performance. At UC Davis, she is actively involved in academic advising and engaging with students interested in the ancient world.

Research topics

• Art
• Engineering
• Oceanography
• Mechanical engineering
• Geology

Selected publications

• Aristophanes’ Successors

  2024-03-08

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• Theatrical Ghosts in Persians and Elsewhere

  Bloomsbury Academic eBooks · 2022 · 1 citations

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  • Art
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• 21 Satyrs in Drag: Transvestism in Ion’s Omphale andElsewhere

  2021-06-21 · 1 citations

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• Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021-05-27

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  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 of neighboring, and the desirability of such a model alongside the more common idea of genealogical inheritance within the modern scholarly treatment of ancient receptions.

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• Dancing on the Plain of the Sea

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Geology
  • Oceanography

  The characterisation of theatrical space as gendered and the roles that female characters are able to play in creating, inhabiting, manipulating, and traversing that space have continued to receive sophisticated analysis. This chapter expands this discussion to encompass the relationship of non-human female characters to theatrical space, and considers how the matrix of gender and topography might have played out across the full span of a tragic production in the case of the conjectured Aeschylean trilogy of Myrmidons, Nereids and Phrygians/The Ransoming of Hector. The chapter argues that the chorus of sea-goddess Nereids provided a contrasting female presence within the trilogy, usurping the roles of the male voices central to the plays' Iliadic source material, and demonstrates how their presence would have rendered the theatrical space unusually fluid, in both senses of the word. The suggestion is made that other Aeschylean plays with female choruses may have been similarly imaginative in their manipulation of the representation of theatrical space, often involving configurations that move beyond the oikos/polis opposition.

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• CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Engineering
  • Mechanical engineering
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• Similes and Other Likenesses in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

  Bloomsbury Academic eBooks · 2020-12-13

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• Index

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2019-07-07

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• Introduction

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2019-07-07

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  This introduction calls into question the communis opino that the works of Pindar and Aeschylus are defined, and thus divided, by genre and performance context.

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• Anachronistic Harmonies<i>Agamemnon</i>parodos, Pythian 4

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2019-07-07

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  This chapeter offers close readings of two complex embedded speeches in order to show the sophisticated manipulation of voice to play with time, space, and identity.

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Frequent coauthors

• Lyndsay Coo

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• Richard Hunter

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• Johanna Hanink

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