Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece
Title:
Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece
Author:
Sommerstein, Alan H., author.
ISBN:
9783110227369
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Series:
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 307
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 307.
General Note:
"This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham"--Preface.
Contents:
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?
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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| KL4350 .S665 2014 | 995161-1001 | Ebook Central | Searching... |
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