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Performing oaths in classical Greek drama

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"Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book exp...

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Auteur principal: Fletcher, Judith
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Sujets:
Aeschylus > Criticism and interpretation.
Sophocles > Criticism and interpretation.
Euripides > Criticism and interpretation.
Aristophanes > Criticism and interpretation.
Greek drama > History and criticism.
Oaths in literature.
Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table des matières:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. From curses to blessings: horkos in the Oresteia; 2. Speaking like a man: Sophocles' Trachiniae and Philoctetes; 3. Horkos in the polis: Athens, Thebes, and Sophocles; 4. Perjury and other perversions: Euripides' Phoenissae, Orestes, and Cyclops; 5. Twisted justice in Aristophanes' Clouds; 6. Women and oaths in Euripides; 7. How to do things with Euripides: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae; 8. Swearing off sex in Aristophanes' Lysistrata; Conclusion.

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