Oaths And Swearing In Ancient Greece

Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110384876
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110227363
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Isabelle C. Torrance
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783111740188
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece written by Isabelle C. Torrance and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311028538X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oath and State in Ancient Greece written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horkos written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Judith Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113950035X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama written by Judith Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eftychia Stavrianopoulou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World written by Eftychia Stavrianopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klassisches Altertum - Ritual - Kult - Gesellschaft.

Author : Joseph Plescia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oath and Perjury in Ancient Greece written by Joseph Plescia and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Teegarden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400848539
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death to Tyrants! written by David Teegarden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : b Joseph Plescia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oath and Perjury in Ancient Greece written by b Joseph Plescia and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: