{"product_id":"horkos-the-oath-in-greek-society-9781904675679","title":"Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction (Alan H. Sommerstein)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Oaths and their Uses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Oaths in political life (P.J. Rhodes, University of Durham, UK)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Oaths in Greek international relations (Sarah Bolmarcich, University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Litigants' oaths in Athenian law (Michael Gagarin, University of Texas, Austin, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 The dikast's oath (David C. Mirhady, Simon Fraser University, Canada)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Could a Greek oath guarantee a claim right? (David M. Carter, University of Reading, UK)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Oath and contract (Edwin M. Carawan, Missouri State University, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 \"An Olympic victory must not be bought\": oath-taking, cheating and women in Greek athletics (Jonathan S. Perry, University of Central Florida, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Case studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Epinician swearing (Bonnie MacLachlan, University of Western Ontario, Canada)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 Horkos in the Oresteia (Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Masters of manipulation: Euripides' (and Medea's) use of oaths in Medea (Arlene Allan, University of Otago, New Zealand)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 Cloudy swearing: when is an oath not an oath? (Alan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 Thucydides and Plataian perjury (Simon Hornblower, University College London, UK)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 The oath of Demophantos and the politics of Athenian identity (Julia L. Shear, University of Glasgow, UK)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 The Syracusans' great oath and the Greek hierophantic performance (Tarik Wareh, Union College, Schenectady, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: From East, to West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 Oath and allusion in Alcaeus 129 (Mary R. Bachvarova, Willamette University, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16 Cosmological oaths in Empedocles and Lucretius (Myrto Gkarani, University of Patras, Greece)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 \"I swear by Augustus himself\": the Greek oath in the Roman world (Serena Connolly, Yale University, USA)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360237388119,"sku":"9781904675679","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781904675679.jpg?v=1754127074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/horkos-the-oath-in-greek-society-9781904675679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}