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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 all these traditions." Read more

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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 all these traditions." Read more

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Now Available Online | Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception

The CHS team is pleased to announce the online publication of Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception, by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis for free on the CHS website. For a print version of this edition, please visit the Harvard University Press website. “The need to broaden our investigation is urgent. Sappho must be revisited from several different perspectives. One is her surviving textual corpus… Read more

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Now Available Online | Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception

The CHS team is pleased to announce the online publication of Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception, by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis for free on the CHS website. For a print version of this edition, please visit the Harvard University Press website. “The need to broaden our investigation is urgent. Sappho must be revisited from several different perspectives. One is her surviving textual corpus and… Read more

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Now Available Online | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition, by Albert Bates Lord

We are pleased to share the news that Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord is now available in electronic form, for free, on the CHS website. In the Introduction, Lord writes: Scope alone, however impressive, and performance alone, however spectacular it may be, constitute but the outward trappings of the study of oral-traditional epic song. It is the singer and what is sung that count. They… Read more

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Now Available Online | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition, by Albert Bates Lord

We are pleased to share the news that Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord is now available in electronic form, for free, on the CHS website. In the Introduction, Lord writes: Scope alone, however impressive, and performance alone, however spectacular it may be, constitute but the outward trappings of the study of oral-traditional epic song. It is the singer and what is sung that count. They are… Read more

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Pindar's Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style

Available Online Now Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style by James Bradley Wells In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar’s language that applies performance as a method for… Read more

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Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style

Available Online Now Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style by James Bradley Wells In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar’s language that applies performance as a method for… Read more

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Now Available Online | Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia

Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia, by Daniel L. Schwartz The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia, by Daniel L. Schwartz on the CHS website. The work is available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. It… Read more

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Now Available Online | Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia

Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia, by Daniel L. Schwartz The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia, by Daniel L. Schwartz on the CHS website. The work is available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. It analyzes… Read more