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Format: 1 online resource (473 pages)

ISBN: 9783110227369 (e-book)

Series Statement: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 307

Note: "This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface. , 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? /

Additional Edition: Print version: Sommerstein, Alan H. Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014] ISSN 1616-0452 ; ISBN 9783110200591

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Format: XI, 277 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-0-521-76273-1

Note: "Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of Speech Act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority"-- Provided by publisher.. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Griechisch ; Drama ; Eid

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Format: 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781139005272 (ebook)

Content: Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Introduction -- 1. From curses to blessings: horkos in the Oresteia -- 2. Speaking like a man: Sophocles' Trachiniae and Philoctetes -- 3. Horkos in the polis: Athens, Thebes, and Sophocles -- 4. Perjury and other perversions: Euripides' Phoenissae, Orestes, and Cyclops -- 5. Twisted justice in Aristophanes' Clouds -- 6. Women and oaths in Euripides -- 7. How to do things with Euripides: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae -- 8. Swearing off sex in Aristophanes' Lysistrata -- Conclusion.

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Subjects: Ancient Studies

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Format: 1 online resource.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 9780191821288 (ebook) :

Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online

Content: Examining a range of contemporary fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the descent into the underworld, from novels and comics to children's culture, this volume reveals the ways in which the catabasis narrative can be manipulated by storytellers to reflect upon postmodern culture, feminist critiques, and postcolonial appropriations.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2019.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780198767091

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Format: 1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4426-8510-7

Series Statement: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 45

Content: "Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chastity provided a certain agency, autonomy, and power to women. This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, in ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the medieval and early modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace."--Jacket.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Introduction / Bonnie MacLachlan -- The invention of virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin -- The virgin choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Fletcher -- The Hippocratic Parthenos in sickness and health / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Why were the vestals virgins? Or the chastity of women and the safety of the Roman state / Holt N. Parker -- 'Only virgins can give birth to Christ': the Virgin Mary and the problem of female authority in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Virgo fortis: images of the crucified virgin saint in medieval art / Ilse Friesen -- Amplification of the virgin: play and empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland -- Christ from the head of Jupiter: an epistemological note on Huet's treatment of the Virgin Birth / Thomas Lennon -- 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': quilting a virginal identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Anne Geddes Bailey. , Issued also in print. , English

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DOI: 10.3138/9781442685109

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Format: viii, 224 Seiten : , 4 Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß).

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 978-0-19-876709-1

Series Statement: Classical presences

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Literatur ; Unterwelt ; Mythos ; Literatur ; Antike ; Unterwelt ; Rezeption ; Popkultur

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Format: 1 online resource (218 pages) : , illustrations

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Additional Edition: Print version: Virginity revisited : configurations of the unpossessed body. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2007 ISBN 9780802090133

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 304 p.) : , ill.

ISBN: 9781781380581 (ebook) :

Content: 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.

Note: Based on conference proceedings. , Greek text with English translation.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9781904675679

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URL: Liverpool scholarship online

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Format: xii, 161 Seiten : , Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß).

ISBN: 978-1-3501-4457-6 , 978-1-3501-4456-9

Series Statement: Forms of drama

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePDF ISBN 978-1-3501-4459-0

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350144606

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Griechisch ; Tragödie

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Format: xi, 277 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Content: "Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of Speech Act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority"--

Note: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. From curses to blessings: horkos in the Oresteia; 2. Speaking like a man: Sophocles' Trachiniae and Philoctetes; 3. Horkos in the polis: Athens, Thebes, and Sophocles; 4. Perjury and other perversions: Euripides' Phoenissae, Orestes, and Cyclops; 5. Twisted justice in Aristophanes' Clouds; 6. Women and oaths in Euripides; 7. How to do things with Euripides: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae; 8. Swearing off sex in Aristophanes' Lysistrata; Conclusion.

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