Oath And State In Ancient Greece

ISBN: 9783110284386 出版年：2012 页码：388 Sommerstein, Alan H Bayliss, Andrew James De Gruyter

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.