Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 130
978-1-4616-0686-4 • eBook • September 1994 • $29.95 • (£25.00)
J.C.B. Petropoulos is assistant professor of ancient Greek literature at Democritean University of Thrace at Alexandroupoli and Komotini.
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
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