Horkos : the oath in Greek society

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Horkos : the oath in Greek society

edited by Alan H. Sommerstein and Judith Fletcher

Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007

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"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

Includes Greek quotations with English translations

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-292) and indexes

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内容説明

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.

目次

Introduction (Alan H. Sommerstein) Part I: Oaths and their Uses 1 Oaths in political life (P.J. Rhodes, University of Durham, UK) 2 Oaths in Greek international relations (Sarah Bolmarcich, University of Michigan, USA) 3 Litigants' oaths in Athenian law (Michael Gagarin, University of Texas, Austin, USA) 4 The dikast's oath (David C. Mirhady, Simon Fraser University, Canada) 5 Could a Greek oath guarantee a claim right? (David M. Carter, University of Reading, UK) 6 Oath and contract (Edwin M. Carawan, Missouri State University, USA) 7 "An Olympic victory must not be bought": oath-taking, cheating and women in Greek athletics (Jonathan S. Perry, University of Central Florida, USA) Part II: Case studies 8 Epinician swearing (Bonnie MacLachlan, University of Western Ontario, Canada) 9 Horkos in the Oresteia (Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 10 Masters of manipulation: Euripides' (and Medea's) use of oaths in Medea (Arlene Allan, University of Otago, New Zealand) 11 Cloudy swearing: when is an oath not an oath? (Alan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK) 12 Thucydides and Plataian perjury (Simon Hornblower, University College London, UK) 13 The oath of Demophantos and the politics of Athenian identity (Julia L. Shear, University of Glasgow, UK) 14 The Syracusans' great oath and the Greek hierophantic performance (Tarik Wareh, Union College, Schenectady, USA) Part III: From East, to West 15 Oath and allusion in Alcaeus 129 (Mary R. Bachvarova, Willamette University, USA) 16 Cosmological oaths in Empedocles and Lucretius (Myrto Gkarani, University of Patras, Greece) 17 "I swear by Augustus himself": the Greek oath in the Roman world (Serena Connolly, Yale University, USA)

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