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Oath and state in Ancient Greece /

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. This v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sommerstein, Alan H.
Otros Autores: Bayliss, Andrew J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
Colección:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 306.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Abbreviations; PART ONE: OATHS IN THE POLIS; 1 Introduction; 2 Oaths and citizenship; 2.1 Initial considerations; 2.2 Oaths as stepping-stones to citizenship at Athens; 2.3 The Athenian ephebic oath; 2.4 The oath of the Spartan sworn bands (enōmotiai); 2.5 Citizenship oaths in new states; 2.6 Oaths in synoecisms; 3 Oaths of office; 3.1 Royal oaths; 3.2 High officials: archons and generals; 3.3 The Athenian bouleutic oath; 3.4 Minor officials; 3.5 The exōmosia for office(s); 4 Assemblies; 5 The judicial sphere; 5.1 Homer and Hesiod; 5.2 Archaic practices and their survival; Gortyn.
  • 5.3 Athens: introduction5.4 The dicastic oath; 5.5 Litigants' preliminary oaths; 5.6 Excusing absence; 5.7 Oath to avoid irrelevance?; 5.8 Oaths and oath-offers during court speeches; 5.9 Did witnesses swear?; 5.10 Refusing to testify: the exōmosia; 5.11 Oath-challenges; 5.12 The antidosis; 5.13 Arbitrators; 5.14 Homicide and the Areopagus; 5.15 Nomothetai; 5.16 Judges of festival competitions; 6 Sunōmosiai (conspiracies); 7 (Re)uniting the citizen body; PART TWO: OATHS AND INTERSTATE RELATIONS; Introduction; 8 The formulation and procedure of interstate oaths; 8.1 Rituals; 8.2 Gods invoked.
  • 8.3 Divine punishment8.4 Giving and receiving oaths: who swears?; 9 Oaths in alliances; 9.1 "We will fight together"; 9.2 The Oath at Plataea; 9.3 Anti-deceit clauses; 9.4 Mutual-defence clauses; 9.5 Oaths to have the same enemies and friends: the Delian League oaths; 9.6 "The Lacedaemonians and their allies"
  • the oaths of the Peloponnesian League; 9.6.1 The origins of the Bündnissystem: "I will follow whithersoever the Spartans may lead"; 9.6.2 Sparta and her allies between the Persian Wars and the Thirty Years' Peace; 9.6.3 Sparta and her allies finally defined
  • the Thirty Years' Peace.
  • 9.6.4 The power of the "full" oath9.7 Oaths between multiple equals; 9.8 "Old" oaths of alliance; 10 Oaths in peace treaties; 10.1 Pouring the peace libations; 10.2 The historical origins of sworn peace treaties; 10.3 The first sworn peace treaties; 10.4 The Thirty Years' Peace of 446/5: Sparta's fear of Athens or fear of the gods?; 10.5 The Peace of Nicias; 10.6 The King's Peace of 387/6: reconsidering Sparta's alleged violation of her oaths; 10.7 The Peace of Philocrates: debunking Philip's reputation as a perjurer; 11 Battlefield truces.
  • 11.1 Truces for collecting the dead
  • spondai peri nekrōn11.2 Other sworn truces; 12 Oaths and "the barbarian"; 12.1 The Trojan War; 12.2 Ritual and manipulation of language; 12.3 Persians: politics, perjury, approbation; 12.4 Conclusions; 13 Conclusion: the efficacy of oaths; Bibliography; Index of names and topics; Index locorum.