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.
| Author/creator | Sommerstein, Alan H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014] |
| Description | ix, 463 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Torrance, Isabelle C. |
| Other author/creator | Bayliss, Andrew J. |
| Other author/creator | Fletcher, Judith. |
| Other author/creator | Konstantinidou, Kyriaki. |
| Other author/creator | Kozak, Lynn. |
| Series | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 1616-0452 ; Band 307 Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 307. ^A284186 |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | "This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014501211 |
| ISBN | 9783110200591 |
| ISBN | 3110200597 |
| ISBN | (online) |