A.H. Sommerstein: What is an oath? K. Konstantinidou: Oath and curse I.C. Torrance: Oaths in traditional myth L.A. Kozak: Friendship and enmity, trust and suspicion.Oaths between warriors in epic and tragedy A.H. Sommerstein: Oaths in business A.H. Sommerstein: The language of oaths.How oaths are expressed I.C. Torrance: The "Sophoclean" oath I.C. Torrance: "Of cabbages and kings": the Eideshort phenomenon /I.C. TorranceWays to give oaths extra sanctity J. Fletcher: Oaths, gender and status.Women and oaths A.J. Bayliss: Servile swearing I.C. Torrance: The oaths of the gods L.A. Kozak: Oaths and characterization: two Homeric case studies A.H. Sommerstein: Oratory and rhetoric A.J. Bayliss except as stated: "Artful dodging", or the sidestepping of oaths I.C. Torrance: The difficulty of proving an oath false: the case of Euripides' Cyclops A.H. Sommerstein: The binding power of oaths.Were oaths always totally binding? A.H. Sommerstein: The oaths of lovers I.C. Torrance: The tongue and the mind: responses to Euripides, Hippolytus 612 I.C. Torrance: Responses to perjury. Divine responses K. Konstantinidou: Human responses A.H. Sommerstein: The informal oath I.C. Torrance: Swearing oaths in the authorial person I.C. Torrance: The Hippocratic Oath A.H. Sommerstein.: The decline of the oath? |
