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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: 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.
  name:
    name part: Torrance, Isabelle C.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 463 pages))
  abstract: "The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched."--Provided by publisher
  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)
  subject:
    topic: Serments (Droit grec)
  subject:
    topic: Droit public (Droit grec)
  subject:
    topic: Ancient Greece
  subject:
    topic: Ancient history: to c 500 CE
  subject:
    topic: Ancient World
  subject:
    topic: Classical history
    topic: classical civilisation
  subject:
    topic: Empires and historical states
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History: earliest times to present day
  subject:
    topic: Humanities
  subject:
    topic: Other geographical groupings, oceans and seas
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Oaths (Greek law)
  subject:
    topic: Greece.
  subject:
    topic: oath.
  subject:
    topic: polis.
  classification: KL4350
  classification: 323.65
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece
    origin info:
      publisher: Berlin ; De Gruyter, [2014]
    identifier: (DLC) 2014501211
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 307
  identifier: 9783110227369
  identifier: 3110227363
  identifier: 9783110384871
  identifier: 3110384876
  identifier: 3110200597
  identifier: 9783110200591
  identifier: 2020718890
  identifier: 000028 Knowledge Unlatched
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150226
    record change date: 20240212223144.6
    record identifier: in00004772502
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng