Format:
IX, 463 S.
ISBN:
3110200597
,
9783110200591
Series Statement:
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 307
Note:
What is an oath?
,
Oath and curse
,
Oaths in traditional myth
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Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion.Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy
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Oaths in business
,
The language of oaths.How oaths are expressed
,
The "Sophoclean" oath
,
"Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon /I.C. TorranceWays to give oaths extra sanctity
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Oaths, gender and status.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
,
The binding power of oaths.Were oaths always totally binding?
,
The oaths of lovers
,
The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612
,
Responses to perjury. Divine responses
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Human responses
,
The informal oath
,
Swearing oaths in the authorial person
,
The Hippocratic Oath
,
The decline of the oath?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110227369
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014 ISBN 9783110227369
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110200597
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110227363
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110384871
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110200591
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110384876
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Sommerstein, Alan H., 1947 - Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014 ISBN 9783110227369
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Sommerstein, Alan H., 1947 - Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece Berlin, Germany / Boston, MA : De Gruyter, 2014 ISBN 9783110227369
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Eid
;
Griechenland
;
Eid
Author information:
Sommerstein, Alan H. 1947-
