Noel Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Concept of Purity in Greek Sacred Laws
Purity is often a requirement of Greek sacred laws. A person is told just how he must be pure in order to approach a given deity to offer sacrifice. Pollution is an invisible condition attaching to one’s person. Purity also depends on appearances. Greek has two words meaning “pure”, distinguishable in early usage as “clean, pure” and “holy, pure”. Conspicuous among them are ‘sacred laws’ that insist on ????? purity. It is defined in two general w…
Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene
Athena as Weather Goddess: The Aigis in Myth and Ritual
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
1. Introduction 2. Gods, myths and festivals 3. Religious places 4. Authority, control and crisis 5. Girls and boys, women and men 6. Elective cults 7. Greek thinkers 8. Reactions to Greek religions
Callimachus' Tale of Sicyon ("SH" 238)
A PAPYRUS SCRAP PUBLISHED IN 1967 gives the beginning of an episode from Callimachus' Aetia, Book One or Two, in which is named.' The ten lines partially preserved have so far proved more puzzling than enlightening, but it may be possible to advance the interpretation. I shall argue first that two material points in the papyrus text have been missed: the bird omen that Callimachus expounds is one peculiar to Sicyon, in which the hoopoe, epops, ta…
The City Center of Archaic Athens
The Two Processions To Eleusis And The Program Of The Mysteries
The Two Processions To Eleusis And The Program Of The Mysteries Noel D. Robertson A Persistent Difficulty in our Understanding of the Eleusinian Mysteries has been the date and composition of the great parade from Athens to Eleusis, near the midpoint of the celebration. The handbooks adopt a desperate remedy, an ad hoc doctrine about the festival calendar. But the evidence of Athenian inscriptions, which has grown steadily without being properly …
The Ancient Mother of the Gods a Missing Chapter in the History of Greek Religion
The Sorrow and the Pity: A Prolegomenon to a History of Athens under the Peisistratids, C. 560-510 B. C
Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
War was a constant activity, almost a staple livelihood, in the cities of ancient Greece, and many public festivals served to promote and celebrate war. They entailed reunions of the whole community, often at the new year, for enrolling citizens or conducting games. Noel Robertson focuses on such festivals in Athens, Aprta, Argos, and two smaller centres, in order to reconstruct the social conditions reflected in the festival programs and setting…
Festivals and Legends
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
Law and Society in Classical Athens
Foreword Abbreviations 1. Justice, Traditional Values and Law 2. The Courts 3. The Administration of Justice 4. Law and Drama 5. The Fourth Century Bibliography Index of Passages Cited General index
From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
Early Greek Law
Government and Society at Miletus, 525-442 B. C
A Point of Precedence at Plataia the Dispute between Athens and Sparta Over Leading the Procession
Noel Robertson, A Point of Precedence at Plataia the Dispute between Athens and Sparta Over Leading the Procession, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 88-102
Poseidon's Festival at the Winter Solstice
The record shows that Poseidon was once worshipped in every part of Greece as a god of general importance to the community. In the glimpse of Mycenaean ritual afforded by the Pylos tablets Poseidon is the chief deity, and the offerings and perhaps also the custom of ‘spreading the bed’ point to agrarian concerns. In each of the main districts of historical Greece he is rooted in tradition: Arcadia, that ancient landscape, is full of ancient cults…
L'utilisation de l'histoire par les orateurs attiques
The Ritual Background of the Dying God in Cyprus and Syro-Palestine
In Frazer's Golden Bough the leading instance of the central figure whom he called “the dying god” was Adonis, famous from Greco-Roman literature and art but firmly localized in Semitic Phoenicia, Syria, and Cyprus. Since Frazer wrote, his other Near Eastern instances have been so transformed by increasing knowledge that it can be doubted whether they severally belong to the same type or indeed whether any general type exists. Adonis has hardly s…
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses
The Decree of Themistocles in Its Contemporary Setting
Timocreon and Themistocles
The Dorian Migration and Corinthian Ritual
The Myth of the First Sacred War
In the history of Archaic Greece no event stands out so clearly as the First Sacred War. The War took place in the years round 590 B.C., and ended with the capture and destruction of the great city of Crisa at the hands of a coalition of powers which included Sicyon, Athens, and Thessaly. Our sources provide a wealth of detail–the causes of the War, the names of half-a-dozen commanders and champions, the stages of the fighting, the victory celebr…
A Corinthian Inscription Recording Honors at Elis for Corinthian Judges
Noel Robertson, A Corinthian Inscription Recording Honors at Elis for Corinthian Judges, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1976), pp. 253-266
Government and Society at Miletus, 525-442 B. C
Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
War was a constant activity, almost a staple livelihood, in the cities of ancient Greece, and many public festivals served to promote and celebrate war. They entailed reunions of the whole community, often at the new year, for enrolling citizens or conducting games. Noel Robertson focuses on such festivals in Athens, Aprta, Argos, and two smaller centres, in order to reconstruct the social conditions reflected in the festival programs and setting…
Poseidon's Festival at the Winter Solstice
The record shows that Poseidon was once worshipped in every part of Greece as a god of general importance to the community. In the glimpse of Mycenaean ritual afforded by the Pylos tablets Poseidon is the chief deity, and the offerings and perhaps also the custom of ‘spreading the bed’ point to agrarian concerns. In each of the main districts of historical Greece he is rooted in tradition: Arcadia, that ancient landscape, is full of ancient cults…
The City Center of Archaic Athens
Law and Society in Classical Athens
Foreword Abbreviations 1. Justice, Traditional Values and Law 2. The Courts 3. The Administration of Justice 4. Law and Drama 5. The Fourth Century Bibliography Index of Passages Cited General index
The Two Processions To Eleusis And The Program Of The Mysteries
The Two Processions To Eleusis And The Program Of The Mysteries Noel D. Robertson A Persistent Difficulty in our Understanding of the Eleusinian Mysteries has been the date and composition of the great parade from Athens to Eleusis, near the midpoint of the celebration. The handbooks adopt a desperate remedy, an ad hoc doctrine about the festival calendar. But the evidence of Athenian inscriptions, which has grown steadily without being properly …
A Point of Precedence at Plataia the Dispute between Athens and Sparta Over Leading the Procession
Noel Robertson, A Point of Precedence at Plataia the Dispute between Athens and Sparta Over Leading the Procession, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 88-102
The Myth of the First Sacred War
In the history of Archaic Greece no event stands out so clearly as the First Sacred War. The War took place in the years round 590 B.C., and ended with the capture and destruction of the great city of Crisa at the hands of a coalition of powers which included Sicyon, Athens, and Thessaly. Our sources provide a wealth of detail–the causes of the War, the names of half-a-dozen commanders and champions, the stages of the fighting, the victory celebr…
Three Odes of Pindar: A Literary Study of Pythian 11, Pythian 3, and Olympian 7
The Sorrow and the Pity: A Prolegomenon to a History of Athens under the Peisistratids, C. 560-510 B. C
L'utilisation de l'histoire par les orateurs attiques
The Dorian Migration and Corinthian Ritual
Folktale and Hero-Tale Motifs in the Odes of Pindar
Three Odes of Pindar: A Literary Study of Pythian 11, Pythian 3, and Olympian 7
The Odes of Pindar. With an Introduction
Der Wahnsinn im griechischen Mythos und in der Dichtung bis zum Drama des fünften Jahrhunderts
Studien zum altitalischen und altrömischen Marskult and Marsmythos
Der Eid von Plataiai
A Corinthian Inscription Recording Honors at Elis for Corinthian Judges
Noel Robertson, A Corinthian Inscription Recording Honors at Elis for Corinthian Judges, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1976), pp. 253-266
The Myth of the First Sacred War
In the history of Archaic Greece no event stands out so clearly as the First Sacred War. The War took place in the years round 590 B.C., and ended with the capture and destruction of the great city of Crisa at the hands of a coalition of powers which included Sicyon, Athens, and Thessaly. Our sources provide a wealth of detail–the causes of the War, the names of half-a-dozen commanders and champions, the stages of the fighting, the victory celebr…
Timocreon and Themistocles
The Dorian Migration and Corinthian Ritual
The Ritual Background of the Dying God in Cyprus and Syro-Palestine
In Frazer's Golden Bough the leading instance of the central figure whom he called “the dying god” was Adonis, famous from Greco-Roman literature and art but firmly localized in Semitic Phoenicia, Syria, and Cyprus. Since Frazer wrote, his other Near Eastern instances have been so transformed by increasing knowledge that it can be doubted whether they severally belong to the same type or indeed whether any general type exists. Adonis has hardly s…
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses
The Decree of Themistocles in Its Contemporary Setting
Poseidon's Festival at the Winter Solstice
The record shows that Poseidon was once worshipped in every part of Greece as a god of general importance to the community. In the glimpse of Mycenaean ritual afforded by the Pylos tablets Poseidon is the chief deity, and the offerings and perhaps also the custom of ‘spreading the bed’ point to agrarian concerns. In each of the main districts of historical Greece he is rooted in tradition: Arcadia, that ancient landscape, is full of ancient cults…
L'utilisation de l'histoire par les orateurs attiques
A Point of Precedence at Plataia the Dispute between Athens and Sparta Over Leading the Procession
Noel Robertson, A Point of Precedence at Plataia the Dispute between Athens and Sparta Over Leading the Procession, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 88-102
Government and Society at Miletus, 525-442 B. C
From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
Early Greek Law
Law and Society in Classical Athens
Foreword Abbreviations 1. Justice, Traditional Values and Law 2. The Courts 3. The Administration of Justice 4. Law and Drama 5. The Fourth Century Bibliography Index of Passages Cited General index
Festivals and Legends
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
Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
War was a constant activity, almost a staple livelihood, in the cities of ancient Greece, and many public festivals served to promote and celebrate war. They entailed reunions of the whole community, often at the new year, for enrolling citizens or conducting games. Noel Robertson focuses on such festivals in Athens, Aprta, Argos, and two smaller centres, in order to reconstruct the social conditions reflected in the festival programs and setting…
The Sorrow and the Pity: A Prolegomenon to a History of Athens under the Peisistratids, C. 560-510 B. C
The Ancient Mother of the Gods a Missing Chapter in the History of Greek Religion
The City Center of Archaic Athens
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