دانلود کتاب Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

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1 What is an oath?
2 Oath and curse
2.1 Horkos and Erinyes: oath as a curse
2.2 Explicit self-curse and oath-taking
2.3 The explicit self-curse in Greek drama
2.4 The explicit self-curse in law-court speeches
3 Oaths in traditional myth
4 Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion
4.1 Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy
4.2 Oaths in business
5 The language of oaths
5.1 How oaths are expressed
5.2 The “Sophoclean” oath
5.3 “Of cabbages and kings”: the Eideshort phenomenon
6 Ways to give oaths extra sanctity
6.1 Sanctifying witnesses and significant locations
6.2 Oath-sacrifices
6.3 Gestures, libations, and unusual sanctifying features
6.4 Multiple sanctifying features
7 Oaths, gender and status
7.1 Women and oaths
7.2 Servile swearing
7.3 The oaths of the gods
8 Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies
8.1 Achilles
8.2 Odysseus
9 Oratory and rhetoric (A.H. Sommerstein)
10 “Artful dodging”, or the sidestepping of oaths (A.J. Bayliss except as stated)
10.1 The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides’ Cyclops
10.2 The concept of sidestepping
10.3 “The art of Autolycus”: extremely careful wording to conceal the truth
10.4 The “Thracian pretence”
10.5 Capturing the commander
10.6 Other careful or dubious interpretation of wording: agreements that end sieges
10.7 Substitution
10.8 False foundations
10.9 Dodging the “blank-cheque” oath
10.10 What does this evidence tell us about Greek attitudes to sidestepped oaths?
10.11 Conclusions
11 The binding power of oaths
11.1 Were oaths always totally binding?
11.2 The oaths of lovers
11.3 The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612
12 Responses to perjury
12.1 Divine responses
12.2 Human responses
13 The informal oath
13.1 How informal oaths are used
Appendix: swearing by Hera
13.2 How binding were informal oaths? The case of Aristophanes’ Clouds
13a Swearing oaths in the authorial person
13a.1 The orators
13a.2 Pindar and other poets
13a.3 Xenophon
13a.4 Three more authorial oaths in prose texts
13a.5 Conclusions
14 The Hippocratic Oath
15 The decline of the oath?
Bibliography
Index locorum
Subject index