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J. C. B. Petropoulos, Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited
Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
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
Table: Canicular Period
Bibliography
Abbreviations
1. Corpora of ancient texts and editions of individual authors (not a complete list)
Quotations are taken from the Oxford editions of ancient authors, unless otherwise stated. Of the editions and commentaries used the following deserve especial notice:
Aesop (Perry) | Aesopica..., ed. Perry, Ben Edwin (Urbana, 1952) |
Alcaeus (LP) | Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta, eds. Lobei, Edgar, and Page, Denys (Oxford, 1955) |
Alcman (Calame) | Alcman, fragmenta. ..., ed. Calame, Claude (Lyricorum Graecorum quae exstant, vi, 1983) |
Anacreontea (W) | Carmina Anacreontea, ed. West, Martin L. (Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1984) |
Archilochus (W) | Iambi et elegi Graeci...., ed. West, M. L., i2 (Oxford, 1989) |
Campbell | Campbell, David A., Greek lyric poetry (Basingstoke and London, 1967; repr., 1972,1976) |
Diehl ii | Anthologia lyrica graeca, ed. Diehl, Ernst, ii (Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1942) |
HE | The Greek Anthology, Hellenistic epigrams..., eds. Gow, A. S. F., and Page, D. L., i-ii (Cambridge, 1965) |
Hes. fr. (M.-W.) | Fragmenta Hesiodea, eds. Merkelbach, R., and West, M. L. (Oxford, 1967) |
Hes. Shield of Herakles (Solmsen) | Hesiodi.... Scutum, ed. Solmsen, Friedrich (Oxford, 1970) |
Hes. WD (Verdenius) | Verdenius, W. J., A commentary on Hesiod Works and Days, vv. 1-382 (Mnem. Suppl., lxxxvi, 1985) |
Hes. WD (West) | Hesiod, Works and Days ..., ed. West, M. L. (Oxford, 1978) |
Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Richardson) | The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, ed. Richardson, N. J. (Oxford, 1974, 1979) |
PCG iv (K.-A.) | Poetae comici Graeci (PCG), eds. Kassel, R., and Austin, C., iv (Berlin, 1983) |
Peek | Griechische Vers-Inschriften, ed. Peek, Werner, i (Berlin, 1955) |
PMG | Poetae melici Graeci, ed. Page, D. L. (Oxford, 1962) |
Sappho (LP) | cf. Alcaeus (LP) above |
Theognis (W) | see Archilochus (W) above |
West | see Hes. WD (West) above |
2. Modern books, including reference and other standard works cited mainly in connection with Greco-Roman literature (not a full bibliography).
Denniston | Denniston, J. D., The Greek particles2 (Oxford, 1954) |
Field guide | Peterson, Roger, Mountfort, Guy, and Hollom, P. A. D., A field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe (London, 1954) |
Gk. insects | Davies, Malcolm, and Kathiri- thamby, Jeyaraney, Greek insects (Oxford, 1986) |
LSJ | Liddell, H. G., and Scott, R., Greek-English Lexicon, revised by Stuart Jones, Sir Henry, and R. McKenzie, with Supplement (Oxford, 1968) |
Pollard | Pollard, John, Birds in Greek life and myth (London, 1977) |
Thompson | Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, A glossary of Greek birds (Oxford, 1936) |
3. Periodicals
References to classical periodicals adhere to the style of L'Année Philologique. Titles of periodicals dealing with modern Greek topics are self-explanatory; the following, however, deserves especial notice:
Laogr. | Λαογραφία, Δελτίον τῆς ‘Ελληνικῆς Λαογραφικῆς Εταιρείας (’Αθῆναι 1909- ) |
4. Other
AG | Ancient Greek |
MG | Modern Greek |
Basilica (Scheltama i) | Basilicorum libri LX … textus librorum I-VIII, ed. Scheltama, H. J. (Groningen, Djakarta, ‘s Gravenhage, 1955) |
N.B. Except where this might seem confusing, the texts of the folksongs appear exactly as originally printed in the Greek sources.