Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited

Now Online | Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by J. C. B. Petropoulos

"Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by John Petropoulos, is an extraordinarily perceptive work of scholarship. This book compares the description of a festival in Hesiod's Works and Days with the traditions of songs that were actually sung at such festivals, ranging from a drinking song of Alcaeus all the way to the folksong traditions of latter-day Greece. No one before Petropoulos has ever noticed the interconnectedness of… Read more

Now Online | Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by J. C. B. Petropoulos

"Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by John Petropoulos, is an extraordinarily perceptive work of scholarship. This book compares the description of a festival in Hesiod's Works and Days with the traditions of songs that were actually sung at such festivals, ranging from a drinking song of Alcaeus all the way to the folksong traditions of latter-day Greece. No one before Petropoulos has ever noticed the interconnectedness of… Read more