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1 What is an oath? (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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1 | (5) |
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2 Oath and curse (K. Konstantinidou) |
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6 | (42) |
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2.1 Horkos and Erinyes: oath as a curse |
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8 | (11) |
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2.2 Explicit self-curse and oath-taking |
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19 | (5) |
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2.3 The explicit self-curse in Greek drama |
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24 | (13) |
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2.4 The explicit self-curse in law-court speeches |
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37 | (11) |
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3 Oaths in traditional myth (I.C. Torrance) |
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48 | (12) |
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4 Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion |
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60 | (16) |
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4.1 Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy (L.A. Kozak) |
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60 | (7) |
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4.2 Oaths in business (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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67 | (9) |
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76 | (56) |
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5.1 How oaths are expressed (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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76 | (10) |
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5.2 The "Sophoclean" oath (I.C. Torrance) |
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86 | (25) |
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5.3 "Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon (I.C. Torrance) |
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111 | (21) |
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6 Ways to give oaths extra sanctity (I.C. Torrance) |
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132 | (24) |
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6.1 Sanctifying witnesses and significant locations |
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132 | (6) |
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138 | (5) |
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6.3 Gestures, libations, and unusual sanctifying features |
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143 | (6) |
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6.4 Multiple sanctifying features |
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149 | (7) |
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7 Oaths, gender and status |
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156 | (57) |
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7.1 Women and oaths (J. Fletcher) |
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156 | (23) |
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7.2 Servile swearing (A.J. Bayliss) |
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179 | (16) |
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7.3 The oaths of the gods (I.C. Torrance) |
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195 | (18) |
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8 Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies (L.A. Kozak) |
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213 | (17) |
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213 | (9) |
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222 | (8) |
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9 Oratory and rhetoric (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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230 | (10) |
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10 "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths (A.J. Bayliss except as stated) |
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240 | (41) |
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10.1 The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides' Cyclops (I.C. Torrance) |
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240 | (3) |
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10.2 The concept of sidestepping |
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243 | (13) |
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10.3 "The art of Autolycus": extremely careful wording to conceal the truth |
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256 | (3) |
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10.4 The "Thracian pretence" |
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259 | (3) |
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10.5 Capturing the commander |
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262 | (3) |
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10.6 Other careful or dubious interpretation of wording: agreements that end sieges |
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265 | (1) |
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266 | (4) |
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270 | (3) |
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10.9 Dodging the "blank-cheque" oath |
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273 | (3) |
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10.10 What does this evidence tell us about Greek attitudes to sidestepped oaths? |
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276 | (3) |
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279 | (2) |
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11 The binding power of oaths |
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281 | (14) |
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11.1 Were oaths always totally binding? (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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281 | (6) |
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11.2 The oaths of lovers (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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287 | (325) |
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11.3 The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus |
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289 | (6) |
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295 | (20) |
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12.1 Divine responses (I.C. Torrance) |
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295 | (8) |
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12.2 Human responses (K. Konstantinidou) |
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303 | (12) |
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13 The informal oath (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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315 | (57) |
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13.1 How informal oaths are used |
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315 | (16) |
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Appendix: swearing by Hera |
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326 | (5) |
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13.2 How binding were informal oaths? The case of Aristophanes' Clouds |
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331 | (17) |
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13a Swearing oaths in the authorial person (I.C. Torrance) |
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348 | (1) |
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348 | (1) |
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13a.2 Pindar and other poets |
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349 | (11) |
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360 | (7) |
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13a.4 Three more authorial oaths in prose texts |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (4) |
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14 The Hippocratic Oath (I.C. Torrance) |
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372 | (9) |
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15 The decline of the oath? (A.H. Sommerstein) |
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381 | (13) |
| Bibliography |
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394 | (19) |
| Index locorum |
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413 | (32) |
| Subject index |
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