Heat and Lust - Hesiod''s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited

Informationen zum Autor J.C.B. Petropoulos is assistant professor of ancient Greek literature at Democritean University of Thrace at Alexandroupoli and Komotini. Klappentext J.C.B. Petropoulos examines the description of midsummer in Hesiod's Works and Days, explores modern Greek agrarian practices and relevant folk beliefs, proverbs, symbols, and songs, and cautiously attempts a 'backward extrapolation'. What you will find here in Petropoulos's study ... is an admirably high standard of scholarship and a persuasive case for the relevance of themes and motifs widely attested in the poetry of the dying folk culture of the southern Balkans to Hesiod's odd evocation of the horrors as well as the compensations of the Dog Days. -- Robert Lamberton, Classical Philology ... raises some interesting questions about how far one can use modern anthropology as a tool for the analysis of ancient texts ... Bryn Mawr Classical Review Zusammenfassung J.C.B. Petropoulos examines the description of midsummer in Hesiod's Works and Days! explores modern Greek agrarian practices and relevant folk beliefs! proverbs! symbols! and songs! and cautiously attempts a 'backward extrapolation'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword by Gregory Nagy Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 The Problem Stated: A Look at Hesiod's Feast and Beyond Chapter 4 The Harvest Chapter 5 The Threshing Chapter 6 The Village of Avdemi: A Case Study in Wanton Women? Chapter 7 Enter the Cicada Chapter 8 Hesiod's Festival Reconsidered Chapter 9 Towards a Conclusion: The Farmer and His Wife. Appendices: Commentary on WD 582-596 Chapter 10 On Zephyros (WD 594) Chapter 11 On kr D=enD=e! Sexual Mischief! and the Migration of Reapers Chapter 12 Commentary on WD 448-452 Chapter 13 Commentary on WD 486-490 Chapter 14 Commentary on Athenaeus 8.360B=carmen populare (PMG) Chapter 15 Harvest Songs Chapter 16 The Avdemi Songs Chapter 17 Canicular Period (Chart): Bibliography Chapter 18 Index ...

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• Autori: J. C. B. Petropoulos, J. C.B. Petropoulos, J.c.b. Petropoulos, PETROPOULOS J C B
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.1994
• EAN: 9780847679010
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-7901-0
• Pagine: 130
• Serie: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets