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Horkos : the oath in Greek society /
The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields. This volume derives from a research project on the oath in ancient Greece, and comprises seventeen chapters, exploring a range of aspects of the subject.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Griego Antiguo |
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Exeter, UK :
Bristol Phoenix Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Oaths in political life / P.J. Rhodes
- Oaths in Greek interternational relations / Sarah Bolmarcich
- Litigants' oaths in Athenian law / Michael Gagarin
- The dikast's oath and the question of fact / David C. Mirhady
- Could a Greek oath guarantee a claim right? Oaths, contracts and the structure of obligation in classical Athens / David Carter
- Oath and contract / Edwin M. Carawan
- 'An Olympic victory must not be bought': oath-taking, cheating and women in Greek athletics / Jonathan S. Perry
- Epinician swearing / Bonnie MacLachlan
- Horkos in the Oresteia / Judith Fletcher
- Masters of manipulation: Euripides' (and Medea's) use of oaths in Medea / Arlene Allan
- Cloudy swearing: when (if ever) is an oath not an oath? / Alan H. Sommerstein
- Thucydides and Plataian perjury / Simon Hornblower
- The oath of Demophantos and the politics of Athenian identity / Julia L. Shear
- Hierophantic performances: the Syracuscans' great oath and other examples / Tarik Wareh
- Oath and allusion in Alcaeus fr. 129 / Mary R. Bachvarova
- Cosmological oaths in Empedocles and Lucretius / Myrto Garani
- ['I swear by Augustus himself']: the Greek oath in the roman world / Serena Connolly.