Oath and state in Ancient Greece
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Oath and state in Ancient Greece
（Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 306）
De Gruyter, c2013
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"Based on the work of the research project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (award no. F.00114/Z), which between 2004 and 2007, at the University of Nottingham, created a database of nearly four thousand references to oaths and swearing in Greek texts ..."--Pref
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-338) and indexes
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The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores how oaths functioned in the working of the Greek city-state (polis) and in relations between different states as well as between Greeks and non-Greeks.
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