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2018
Weiss N. Performing the Wedding Song in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis. In: Andújar R, Coward T, Hadjimichael T Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy. Berlin: De Gruyter ; 2018. pp. 315-41. Publisher's Version
2017
Weiss N. Noise, Music, Speech: The Representation of Lament in Greek Tragedy. American Journal of Philology. 2017;138 (2) :243-66. Publisher's VersionAbstract
This article examines how lament in Greek tragedy is conceptualized as both highly skillful song and inarticulate noise, and how the slippage between these two apparently contradictory characteristics could be exploited for dramatic effect. I demonstrate how the twofold nature of lament is bound up not just with its ritual practice (the combination of the góos wail and the more formal thrēnos) but with its association with birdsong and displays of extreme emotion by females and foreigners.
2016
Weiss N. The Choral Architecture of Pindar's Eighth Paean. Transactions of the American Philological Association. 2016;146 (2) :237-55. Publisher's VersionAbstract

This paper argues that the interplay between the narrative and performance of Pindar’s eighth paean embeds it within the physical environment of Delphi, at the site of the Alcmaeonid temple for which it was composed. The use of choreographic and musical images to describe the temple’s mythical predecessors merges with the chorus’s own choreia, which thus has a doubling effect, visually and acoustically overlaying the Alcmaeonid temple with these older structures in a complex interaction of real and imagined space.

Weiss N. Review of Mossman, J. ed. 2011. Euripides. Medea. Warminster. Classical Review. 2016;66 :39-41. Publisher's Version
Weiss N. Review of Hanink, J. 2014. Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy. Cambridge. Classical Philology. 2016;111 :89-94. Publisher's Version
2015
Weiss N. Review of Gagné, R. and Hopman, M.G. (ed.), Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy. Classical Review. 2015; 65 (1) : 25-27.
2014
Weiss N. The Antiphonal Ending of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis (1475-1532). Classical Philology. 2014; 109 : 119-29. Publisher's Version
2013
Weiss N. The Visual Language of Nero's Harbor Sestertii. Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome. 2013; 58 : 65-81. Publisher's Version
2012
Weiss N. Recognition and Identity in Euripides' Ion. In: Recognition and Modes of Knowledge: Anagnorisis from Antiquity to Contemporary Theory, ed. T. Russo. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press ; 2012. pp. 33-50. Publisher's Version
2008
Weiss N. A Psychoanalytical Reading of Euripides' Ion: Repetition, Development and Identity. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 2008; 51 : 39-50. Publisher's Version

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