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  title info:
    title: Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece
  name:
    name part: Sommerstein, Alan H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Torrance, Isabelle C.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bayliss, Andrew J.
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Fletcher, Judith
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Konstantinidou, Kyriaki
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kozak, Lynn
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 463 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of 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.
  note: Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance ; with contributions by Andrew J. Bayliss, Judith Fletcher, Kyriaki Konstantinidou and Lynn A. Kozak.
  note: "This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    topic: Oaths (Greek law)
  subject:
    topic: Public law (Greek law)
  classification: KL4350 .S665 2014
  classification: 323.65
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 307
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