Heat and lust : Hesiod's midsummer festival scene revisited / J.C.B. Petropoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petropoulos, J. C. B.

Contributor:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Greek studies

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Hesiod--Knowledge and learning--Folklore.

Hesiod.

Festivals in literature.

Summer in literature.

Sex in literature.

Folklore--Greece.

Folklore.

Greece.

Hesiod. Works and days.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 115 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1994]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. The Problem Stated: A Look at Hesiod's Feast and Beyond

2. The Harvest

3. The Threshing

4. The Village of Avdemi: A Case Study in Wanton Women?

5. Enter the Cicada

6. Hesiod's Festival Reconsidered

7. Towards a Conclusion: The Farmer and His Wife

Appendix 1: Commentary on WD 582-596

Appendix 2: On Zephyros (WD 594)

Appendix 3: On the Fountain, Sexual Mischief, and the Migration of Reapers

Appendix 4: Commentary on WD 448-452

Appendix 5: Commentary on WD 486-490

Appendix 6: Commentary on Athenaeus 8.360B = carmen populare 848 (PMG)

Appendix 7: Harvest Songs

Appendix 8: The Avdemi Songs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Petropoulos, J.C.B. Heat and lust.

OCLC:

621387781