Description
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.
Chapter
3.2 High officials: archons and generals
3.3 The Athenian bouleutic oath
3.5 The exōmosia for office(s)
5.2 Archaic practices and their survival; Gortyn
5.5 Litigants’ preliminary oaths
5.7 Oath to avoid irrelevance?
5.8 Oaths and oath-offers during court speeches
5.10 Refusing to testify: the exōmosia
5.14 Homicide and the Areopagus
5.16 Judges of festival competitions
6 Sunōmosiai (conspiracies)
7 (Re)uniting the citizen body
PART TWO: OATHS AND INTERSTATE RELATIONS
8 The formulation and procedure of interstate oaths
8.4 Giving and receiving oaths: who swears?
9.1 “We will fight together”
9.4 Mutual-defence clauses
9.5 Oaths to have the same enemies and friends: the Delian League oaths
9.6 “The Lacedaemonians and their allies” — the oaths of the Peloponnesian League
9.6.1 The origins of the Bündnissystem: “I will follow whithersoever the Spartans may lead”
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 — the Thirty Years’ Peace
9.6.4 The power of the “full” oath
9.7 Oaths between multiple equals
9.8 “Old” 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?
10.6 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
11.1 Truces for collecting the dead — spondai peri nekrōn
12 Oaths and “the barbarian”
12.2 Ritual and manipulation of language
12.3 Persians: politics, perjury, approbation
13 Conclusion: the efficacy of oaths
Index of names and topics
Index of names and topics
Oath and State in Ancient Greece
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