Oath and state in Ancient Greece
By: Alan H. Sommerstein, Andrew J. Bayliss ; with contributions by Lynn A. Kozak and Isabelle C. Torrance
Contributors: Bayliss, Andrew J.
Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde -- Bd. 306; Beiträge zur Altertumskunde -- Bd. 306.
Publisher: De Gruyter; de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9783110284386; 9783110285383
Subjects: Politics and government; Staat; Oaths (Greek law); Public law (Greek law); Eid
Notes: "Based on the work of the research project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece ... which ... at the University of Nottingham, created a database of nearly four thousand references to oaths and swearing in Greek texts"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface ; PART ONE: OATHS IN THE POLIS. 1 Introduction / A.H. Sommerstein ; 2 Oaths and citizenship / A.J. Bayliss (2.1 Initial considerations, 2.2 Oaths as stepping-stones to citizenship at Athens, 2.3 The Athenian ephebic oath, 2.4 The oath of the Spartan sworn bands (enōmotiai), 2.5 Citizenship oaths in new states, 2.6 Oaths in synoecisms) ; 3 Oaths of office / A.J. Bayliss (3.1 Royal oaths, 3.2 High officials: archons and generals, 3.3 The Athenian bouleutic oath, 3.4 Minor officials, 3.5 The exōmosia for office(s) ; 4 Assemblies / A.H. Sommerstein ; 5 The judicial sphere / A.H. Sommerstein (5.1 Homer and Hesiod, 5.2 Archaic practices and their survival; Gortyn, 5.3 Athens: introduction, 5.4 The dicastic oath, 5.5 Litigants' preliminary oaths, 5.6 Excusing absence, 5.7 Oath to avoid irrelevance?, 5.8 Oaths and oath-offers during court speeches, 5.9 Did witnesses swear?, 5.10 Refusing to testify: the exōmosia, 5.11 Oath-challenges, 5.12 The antidosis, 5.13 Arbitrators, 5.14 Homicide and the Areopagus, 5.15 Nomothetai, 5.16 Judges of festival competitions) ; 6 Sunōmosiai (conspiracies) / A.H. Sommerstein ; 7 (Re)uniting the citizen body ; PART TWO: OATHS AND INTERSTATE RELATIONS / A.J. Bayliss. Introduction ; 8 The formulation and procedure of interstate oaths (8.1 Rituals, 8.2 Gods invoked, 8.3 Divine punishment, 8.4 Giving and receiving oaths: who swears?) ; 9 Oaths in alliances (9.1 2We will fight together3, 9.2 The Oath at Plataea / L.A. Kozak, 9.3 Anti-deceit clauses, 9.4 Mutual-defence clauses, 9.5 Oaths to have the same enemies and friends: the Delian League oaths, 9.6 2The Lacedaemonians and their allies3; title: the oaths of the Peloponnesian League ~(9.6.1 The origins of the Bündnissystem: 2I will follow whithersoever the Spartans may lead3, 9.6.2 Sparta and her allies between the Persian Wars and the Thirty Years' Peace, 9.6.3 Sparta and her allies finally defined; title: the Thirty Years' Peace, 9.6.4 The power of the 2full3 oath), 9.7 Oaths between multiple equals, 9.8 2Old3 oaths of alliance) ; 10 Oaths in peace treaties (10.1 Pouring the peace libations,10.2 The historical origins of sworn peace treaties, 10.3 The first sworn peace treaties, 10.4 The Thirty Years' Peace of 446/5: Sparta's fear of Athens or fear of the gods?, 10.5 The Peace of Nicias / L.A. Kozak, 10.6 The King's Peace of 387/6: reconsidering Sparta's alleged violation of her oaths, 10.7 The Peace of Philocrates: debunking Philip's reputation as a perjurer) ; 11 Battlefield truces (11.1 Truces for collecting the dead; title: spondai peri nekrōn, 11.2 Other sworn truces) ; 12 Oaths and 2the barbarian3 / I.C. Torrance ; (12.1 The Trojan War, 12.2 Ritual and manipulation of language, 12.3 Persians: politics, perjury, approbation, 12.4 Conclusions) ; 13 Conclusion: the efficacy of oaths.