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| Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings History Congresses Congrès |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Horkos. Exeter, UK : Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608313096 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan H Sommerstein; Judith Fletcher; University of Nottingham. |
| ISBN: | 9781904675679 1904675670 |
| Language Note: | Includes Greek quotations with English translations. |
| OCLC Number: | 144525079 |
| Notes: | "This volume originated ... from a conference on 'The Oath in Greek Society' held at Nightingale Hall, University of Nottingham, from 30 June to 2 July 2004"--Preface. |
| Description: | xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | Oaths in political life / P.J. Rhodes -- Oaths in Greek interternational relations / Sarah Bolmarcich -- Litigants' oaths in Athenian law / Michael Gagarin -- The dikast's oath and the question of fact / David C. Mirhady -- Could a Greek oath guarantee a claim right? Oaths, contracts and the structure of obligation in classical Athens / David Carter -- Oath and contract / Edwin M. Carawan -- 'An Olympic victory must not be bought': oath-taking, cheating and women in Greek athletics / Jonathan S. Perry -- Epinician swearing / Bonnie MacLachlan -- Horkos in the Oresteia / Judith Fletcher -- Masters of manipulation: Euripides' (and Medea's) use of oaths in Medea / Arlene Allan -- Cloudy swearing: when (if ever) is an oath not an oath? / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Thucydides and Plataian perjury / Simon Hornblower -- The oath of Demophantos and the politics of Athenian identity / Julia L. Shear -- Hierophantic performances: the Syracuscans' great oath and other examples / Tarik Wareh -- Oath and allusion in Alcaeus fr. 129 / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Cosmological oaths in Empedocles and Lucretius / Myrto Garani -- ['I swear by Augustus himself']: the Greek oath in the roman world / Serena Connolly. |
| Other Titles: | Oath in Greek society |
| Responsibility: | edited by Alan H. Sommerstein and Judith Fletcher. |
Abstract:
The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields;
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