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"The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sommerstein, Alan H. (Autor), Fletcher, Judith (Autor), Konstantinidou, Kyriaki (Autor), Kozak, Lynn (Autor), Torrance, Isabelle C. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bayliss, Andrew J. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Colección:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 307.
Temas:
Oaths (Greek law)
Public law (Greek law)
Serments (Droit grec)
Droit public (Droit grec)
Ancient Greece.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Ancient World.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
Empires and historical states.
History.
History: earliest times to present day.
Humanities.
Other geographical groupings, oceans and seas.
HISTORY > General.
Greece.
oath.
polis.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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