Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece /

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
VerfasserIn:
Sommerstein, Alan H.,
Torrance, Isabelle C.,
Fletcher, Judith,
Konstantinidou, Kyriaki,
Kozak, Lynn,
TeilnehmendeR:
Torrance, Isabelle C.,
Bayliss, Andrew J.,
Fletcher, Judith,
Konstantinidou, Kyriaki,
Kozak, Lynn,
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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Table of Contents:
  • What is an oath? / A.H. Sommerstein
  • Oath and curse / K. Konstantinidou
  • Oaths in traditional myth / I.C. Torrance
  • Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion. Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy / L.A. Kozak
  • Oaths in business / A.H. Sommerstein
  • The language of oaths. How oaths are expressed / A.H. Sommerstein
  • The "Sophoclean" oath / I.C. Torrance
  • "Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon /I.C. Torrance
  • Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / I.C. Torrance
  • Oaths, gender and status. Women and oaths / J. Fletcher
  • Servile swearing / A.J. Bayliss
  • The oaths of the gods / I.C. Torrance
  • Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / L.A. Kozak
  • Oratory and rhetoric / A.H. Sommerstein
  • "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / A.J. Bayliss except as stated
  • The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides' Cyclops / I.C. Torrance
  • The binding power of oaths. Were oaths always totally binding? / A.H. Sommerstein
  • The oaths of lovers / A.H. Sommerstein
  • The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612 / I.C. Torrance
  • Responses to perjury. Divine responses / I.C. Torrance
  • Human responses / K. Konstantinidou
  • The informal oath / A.H. Sommerstein
  • Swearing oaths in the authorial person / I.C. Torrance
  • The Hippocratic Oath / I.C. Torrance
  • The decline of the oath? / A.H. Sommerstein.

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