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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

1 online resource (473 pages)

ISBN 9783110227369 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 3110200597

ISBN 9783110200591

Beitrage zur Altertumskunde, ISSN 1616-0452 ; Band 307

Print version: Sommerstein, Alan H. Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014] ix, 463 pages ; 24 cm Beitrage zur Altertumskunde ; Band 307 ISBN 9783110200591

"This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and indexes

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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