Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society

by: Sommerstein, A.H. Fletcher, J.

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The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields; but they have never been the object of a comprehensive, systematic study.This volume derives from a research project on the oath in ancient Greece, and comprises seventeen chapters by experts in law, in political and social history, in literary criticism, and in cross-cultural studies, exploring the subject from a broad spectrum of positions. Topics covered include the nature of ancient Greek oaths; the functions they performed within communities and in relations between them; their exploitation in literary texts and at critical moments in history; and connections between Greek oath phenomena and those of other cultures with which Greek came into contact, from the Hittites to the Romans.

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

Subjects:
Conference papers and proceedings
Eed
Greece
Greece Social life and customs Congresses
Grèce Mœurs et coutumes Congrès
Griekse oudheid
History
Manners and customs
Oaths
Oaths (Greek law)
Oaths (Greek law) Congresses
Oaths Greece History Congresses
Oaths Greece History To 1500 Congresses
Serments (Droit grec) Congrès
Serments Grèce Histoire Congrès
To 1500

Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society

by: Sommerstein, A.H. Fletcher, J.

• ISBN-13: 9781904675679 / 978-1-904675-67-9
• ISBN-03: 1904675670 / 1-904675-67-0
• Bristol Phoenix Press, Exeter, 2007

Price: 118,00 EURO

1 copy in stock