Oath and State in Ancient Greece
Title | Oath and State in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Alan H. Sommerstein |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311028538X |
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.
The Oath and Perjury in Ancient Greece
Title | The Oath and Perjury in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Plescia |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Oaths (Greek law) |
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Horkos
Title | Horkos PDF eBook |
Author | Alan H. Sommerstein |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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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.
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
Title | Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Alan H. Sommerstein |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2014-09-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110384876 |
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.
Political obligation in ancient Greece and in the modern world
Title | Political obligation in ancient Greece and in the modern world PDF eBook |
Author | Mogens Herman Hansen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 75 |
Release | |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN | 9788773043912 |
Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece
Title | Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Farenga |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 499 |
Release | 2006-05-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139456784 |
This 2006 study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades and Socrates' moral individualism.
Lysistrata
Title | Lysistrata PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Lysistrata (Fictitious character) |
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