Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece /
Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance ; with contributions by Andrew J. Bayliss, Judith Fletcher, Kyriaki Konstantinidou and Lynn A. Kozak.
- 1 online resource (473 pages)
- Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 307 1616-0452 ; .
- Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 307. .
"This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and indexes.
What is an oath? / Oath and curse / Oaths in traditional myth / Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy / Oaths in business / How oaths are expressed / The "Sophoclean" oath / "Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon /I.C. Torrance -- Ways to give oaths extra sanctity / Women and oaths / Servile swearing / The oaths of the gods / Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies / Oratory and rhetoric / "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths / The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides' Cyclops / Were oaths always totally binding? / The oaths of lovers / The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612 / Human responses / The informal oath / Swearing oaths in the authorial person / The Hippocratic Oath / The decline of the oath? / A.H. Sommerstein -- K. Konstantinidou -- I.C. Torrance -- L.A. Kozak -- A.H. Sommerstein -- A.H. Sommerstein -- I.C. Torrance -- I.C. Torrance -- J. Fletcher -- A.J. Bayliss -- I.C. Torrance -- L.A. Kozak -- A.H. Sommerstein -- A.J. Bayliss except as stated -- I.C. Torrance -- A.H. Sommerstein -- A.H. Sommerstein -- I.C. Torrance -- I.C. Torrance -- K. Konstantinidou -- A.H. Sommerstein -- I.C. Torrance -- I.C. Torrance -- A.H. Sommerstein. Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion. The language of oaths. Oaths, gender and status. The binding power of oaths. Responses to perjury. Divine responses /