Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2014]
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| Series: | Beitrage zur Altertumskunde ;
Bd. 307. |
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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.