Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece / / Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance ; with contributions by Andrew J. Bayliss, Judith Fletcher, Kyriaki Konstantinidou and Lynn A. Kozak.
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| Superior document: | Beitrage zur Altertumskunde, Band 307 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beitrage zur Altertumskunde ;
Bd. 307. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (473 pages) |
| Notes: | "This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface. |
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| Other title: | What is an oath? / Oath and curse / Oaths in traditional myth / Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy / Oaths in business / How oaths are expressed / The "Sophoclean" oath / "Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon /I.C. Torrance -- Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / Women and oaths / Servile swearing / The oaths of the gods / Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / Oratory and rhetoric / "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides' Cyclops / Were oaths always totally binding? / The oaths of lovers / The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612 / Human responses / The informal oath / Swearing oaths in the authorial person / The Hippocratic Oath / The decline of the oath? / |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 3110200597 9783110200591 9783110227369 |
| ISSN: | 1616-0452 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance ; with contributions by Andrew J. Bayliss, Judith Fletcher, Kyriaki Konstantinidou and Lynn A. Kozak. |