TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sommerstein,Alan H.
AU  - Torrance,Isabelle C.
AU  - Bayliss,Andrew J.
AU  - Fletcher,Judith
AU  - Konstantinidou,Kyriaki
AU  - Kozak,Lynn
TI  - Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece
T2  - Beiträge zur Altertumskunde,
AV  - KL4350 .S665 2014
U1  - 323.65 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Oaths (Greek law)
KW  - Public law (Greek law)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "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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