Noel D. Robertson

Department of Classics

Office: ST 1118
Tel.: (905) 688-5550 ext.3796
Internet: nroberts@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

• ($500.00) Artemis and the magic of the hunt

• ($2,000.00) To present papers at two conferences in Australia (March, 1993).

• Brock University Release Time Award (1 course relief) : The rape of Persephone: literary variations and ritual correlatives, March 1994.

• Festivals and Legends. The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual, (Phoenix Supplement 31, University of Toronto Press, 1992).

• "Some recent work in Greek mythology," Echos du Monde Classique² 10, 1991, pp. 57 - 79.
• "The betrothal symposium in early Greece," Dining in a Classical Context, University of Michigan Press, 1991, pp. 25 - 57.
• "Myth, ritual, and livelihood in early Greece," Ancient Economy in Mythology: East and West, 1991, pp. 3 - 34.
• "Athens' festival of the new wine", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 95 (1993) 197-250

• Visiting Research Fellow, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, June-August 1993.
• Vice-President, Classical Association of Canada.

• "The magic properties of female age-groups in Greek ritual," Women in ancient Greek cult, University of Western Ontario, September 1991.
• "The magic properties of female age-groups in Greek religion," Annual Meeting of Classical Association of Canada, Charlottetown, P.E.I., May 1992.
• "Myth and ritual at the new year's festival," Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1992.
• "Women's magic in Greek ritual," University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, October 1992.
• "Women's magic in Greek ritual," Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, October 1992.
• "Women's magic in Greek ritual," Sir Wilfrid Grenfell College, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, October 1992.
• "`Prometheus Bound': the origin of a symbol," University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, P.E.I., October 1992.
• "Athena and the rise of Greek cities," Dalhousie University and St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 1992.
• "Women's magic in Greek ritual," Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, October 1992.
• "The anatomy of Greek myth," Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, October 1992.
• "Women's magic in Greek ritual," University of New Brunswick, St. John, New Brunswick, October 1992.
• "Festivals of Athena and the origin of the polis," University of New English, Armidale (Australia), conference on "Religion in the ancient world", July 1993.
• "From phratries to demes: the early organization of Attica before Cleisthenes," Macquarie University, Sydney, conference on "Ancient history in a modern university", July 1993.

• "Prometheus the foreknowing: Myth and ritual in ancient Athens," Love and Humanism Symposium, February 1992.