| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-292) and indexes |
| Notes |
Includes Greek quotations with English translations |
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Print version record |
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Oaths -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Oaths (Greek law) -- Congresses
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Oaths -- Greece -- History -- Congresses
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Manners and customs
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Oaths
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Oaths (Greek law)
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Eed.
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Griekse oudheid.
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Oaths -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Oaths (Greek law) -- Congresses.
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Greece -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
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Greece
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sommerstein, Alan H
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Fletcher, Judith
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University of Nottingham.
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| ISBN |
9781781380581 |
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1781380589 |
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