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Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece / Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 307Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (473 p.)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110227369
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. What is an oath? / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 2. Oath and curse / Konstantinidou, Kyriaki -- 3. Oaths in traditional myth / Torrance, I.C. -- 4. Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion / Kozak, L. A. / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 5. The language of oaths / Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- 6. Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / Torrance, I.C. -- 7. Oaths, gender and status / Fletcher, Judith / Bayliss, A.J. / Torrance, I.C. -- 8. Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / Kozak, L. A. -- 9. Oratory and rhetoric / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 10. "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / Torrance, I.C. -- 11. The binding power of oaths / Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- 12. Responses to perjury / Torrance, I.C. / Konstantinidou, K. -- 13. The informal oath / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 13a. Swearing oaths in the authorial person / Torrance, I.C. -- 14. The Hippocratic Oath / Torrance, I.C. -- 15. The decline of the oath? / Sommerstein, A.H. -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Subject index
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. What is an oath? / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 2. Oath and curse / Konstantinidou, Kyriaki -- 3. Oaths in traditional myth / Torrance, I.C. -- 4. Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion / Kozak, L. A. / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 5. The language of oaths / Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- 6. Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / Torrance, I.C. -- 7. Oaths, gender and status / Fletcher, Judith / Bayliss, A.J. / Torrance, I.C. -- 8. Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / Kozak, L. A. -- 9. Oratory and rhetoric / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 10. "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / Torrance, I.C. -- 11. The binding power of oaths / Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- 12. Responses to perjury / Torrance, I.C. / Konstantinidou, K. -- 13. The informal oath / Sommerstein, A.H. -- 13a. Swearing oaths in the authorial person / Torrance, I.C. -- 14. The Hippocratic Oath / Torrance, I.C. -- 15. The decline of the oath? / Sommerstein, A.H. -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Subject index

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