Sommerstein, Alan H.,  <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>  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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110227369 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1515/9783110227369  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Oaths (Greek law)<br/>Oaths (Greek law).<br/>Oaths--History--Greece--To 1500.<br/>Eid.<br/>Greece.<br/>Griechenland.<br/>Polis.<br/>oath.<br/>polis.<br/>HISTORY / Ancient / General.