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Performing oaths in classical Greek drama

"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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Päätekijä: Fletcher, Judith
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Aiheet:
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.
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  • 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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