Ebook: Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
Author: Noel Robertson
- Genre: History
- Tags: City-states -- Greece -- History, Festivals -- Greece -- History, Literature and history, City-states, Festivals, Literature and history, Greece
- Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 31
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Language: English
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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.