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A research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and directed by Professor A.H. Sommerstein, Department of Classics.
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across an enormously wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world. Oaths are uttered, prescribed, or referred to in almost every kind of literary or inscriptional text we have from archaic and classical Greece.
The Oaths database contains all references to oaths in Greek texts of all kinds from the earliest alphabetic inscriptions down to 322 BC, the year of the death of Aristotle and the end of the classical Athenian democracy, and the project team is now engaged in the analysis and interpretation of this evidence, preparing a two-volume study of The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece.
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