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Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece / Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 307Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (463 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110227369
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 290
LOC classification:
  • KL4350 .S665 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.
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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

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The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.

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