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Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece /

Основни автори: Sommerstein, Alan H., (Author), Torrance, Isabelle C., (Author), Fletcher, Judith, (Author), Konstantinidou, Kyriaki, (Author), Kozak, Lynn, (Author)
Други автори: Bayliss, Andrew J., (Contributor)
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Серия: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 307.
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Съдържание:
  • 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.