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Festivals and Legends
ISBN: 9781442674851
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Festivals -- Greece; Legends -- Greece; Rites and ceremonies -- Greece; Cities and towns Ancient -- Greece; War -- Mythology;

Since ritual is by definition unchanging, public festivals can disclose earlier stages of social organization. Robertson also shows how the festivals gave rise, by way of aetiology (explanatory tales or legends), to some persistent misconceptions about the past.

Noel Robertson is a member of the Department of Classics at Brock University.