UID:
almahu_9948316127602882
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.
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What is an oath? /
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Oath and curse /
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Oaths in traditional myth /
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Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy /
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Oaths in business /
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How oaths are expressed /
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The "Sophoclean" oath /
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"Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon /I.C. Torrance --
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Ways to give oaths extra sanctity /
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Women and oaths /
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Servile swearing /
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The oaths of the gods /
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Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies /
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Oratory and rhetoric /
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"Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths /
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The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides' Cyclops /
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Were oaths always totally binding? /
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The oaths of lovers /
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The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612 /
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Human responses /
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The informal oath /
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Swearing oaths in the authorial person /
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The Hippocratic Oath /
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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
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
