Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece /
Sommerstein, Alan H.,
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece / Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014] ©2014 - 1 online resource (473 p.) - Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 307 .
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. What is an oath? / 2. Oath and curse / 3. Oaths in traditional myth / 4. Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion / 5. The language of oaths / 6. Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / 7. Oaths, gender and status / 8. Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / 9. Oratory and rhetoric / 10. "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / 11. The binding power of oaths / 12. Responses to perjury / 13. The informal oath / 13a. Swearing oaths in the authorial person / 14. The Hippocratic Oath / 15. The decline of the oath? / Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Subject index Sommerstein, A.H. -- Konstantinidou, Kyriaki -- Torrance, I.C. -- Kozak, L. A. / Sommerstein, A.H. -- Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Fletcher, Judith / Bayliss, A.J. / Torrance, I.C. -- Kozak, L. A. -- Sommerstein, A.H. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- Torrance, I.C. / Konstantinidou, K. -- Sommerstein, A.H. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Sommerstein, A.H. --
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Oaths (Greek law)
Oaths (Greek law).
Oaths--History--Greece--To 1500.
Eid.
Greece.
Griechenland.
Polis.
oath.
polis.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece / Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014] ©2014 - 1 online resource (473 p.) - Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 307 .
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. What is an oath? / 2. Oath and curse / 3. Oaths in traditional myth / 4. Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion / 5. The language of oaths / 6. Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / 7. Oaths, gender and status / 8. Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / 9. Oratory and rhetoric / 10. "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / 11. The binding power of oaths / 12. Responses to perjury / 13. The informal oath / 13a. Swearing oaths in the authorial person / 14. The Hippocratic Oath / 15. The decline of the oath? / Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Subject index Sommerstein, A.H. -- Konstantinidou, Kyriaki -- Torrance, I.C. -- Kozak, L. A. / Sommerstein, A.H. -- Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Fletcher, Judith / Bayliss, A.J. / Torrance, I.C. -- Kozak, L. A. -- Sommerstein, A.H. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Sommerstein, A.H. / Torrance, I.C. -- Torrance, I.C. / Konstantinidou, K. -- Sommerstein, A.H. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Torrance, I.C. -- Sommerstein, A.H. --
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
In English.
9783110227369
10.1515/9783110227369 doi
Oaths (Greek law)
Oaths (Greek law).
Oaths--History--Greece--To 1500.
Eid.
Greece.
Griechenland.
Polis.
oath.
polis.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.