Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 3110384876

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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 the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.

Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 3110227363

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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 the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.

Horkos
Horkos

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields. This volume derives from a research project on the oath in ancient Greece, and comprises seventeen chapters, exploring a range of aspects of the subject.

Oath and State in Ancient Greece
Oath and State in Ancient Greece

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 311028538X

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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.

Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama

Author: Judith Fletcher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-24

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 113950035X

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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 explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.

Death to Tyrants!
Death to Tyrants!

Author: David Teegarden

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2013-11-24

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1400848539

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Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness the dynamics of mass uprisings and preserve popular democratic rule in the face of anti-democratic threats. He presents detailed historical and sociopolitical analyses of each law and considers a variety of issues: What is the nature of an anti-democratic threat? How would various provisions of the laws help pro-democrats counter those threats? And did the laws work? Teegarden argues that tyrant-killing legislation facilitated pro-democracy mobilization both by encouraging brave individuals to strike the first blow against a nondemocratic regime and by convincing others that it was safe to follow the tyrant killer's lead. Such legislation thus deterred anti-democrats from staging a coup by ensuring that they would be overwhelmed by their numerically superior opponents. Drawing on modern social science models, Teegarden looks at how the institution of public law affects the behavior of individuals and groups, thereby exploring the foundation of democracy's persistence in the ancient Greek world. He also provides the first English translation of the tyrant-killing laws from Eretria and Ilion. By analyzing crucial ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation, Death to Tyrants! explains how certain laws enabled citizens to draw on collective strength in order to defend and preserve their democracy in the face of motivated opposition.

Holy Sh*t
Holy Sh*t

Author: Melissa Mohr

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0199742677

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A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia

Rescued by Europe?
Rescued by Europe?

Author: Maurizio Ferrera

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9789053566510

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Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

Rethinking Greek Religion
Rethinking Greek Religion

Author: Julia Kindt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1139560123

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Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek religion beyond this traditional paradigm. Comparative in method and outlook, the book invites its readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journey touching upon such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic and theology. Specific examples include the transformation of tyrant property into ritual objects, the cultural practice of setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make love to Praxiteles' famous statue of Aphrodite. The book will be valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.