Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece /
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | anglais |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2014]
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Collection: | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ;
Bd. 307. |
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Table des matières:
- 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.