In archaic societies the oath is not an explanation given in particular form by an official order, but, at the very most, a selfcondemnation and therefore, together with trial by ordeal and duel, a means to ending serious conflicts. In the early Greek epos there is only one single paragraph that still testifies to such a regulation (by πρόκλησις ‘challenge’, as the later term says); and less than 200 years later Xenophanes describes what happens when in the legal reality of more secular/enlightened societies the old piece of evidence remains preserved.
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedStreitbeendigung durch Eid. Überlegungen zu Ilias Ψ 579–595LicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedEars are not the Subject of Hearing in Aristotle’s On the Soul II 8, 420a3–12LicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedΤρυφη and υβρις in the Περι Βιων of ClearchusLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedCorrupt Passages in the Scholia Vetera to Sophocles’ TrachiniaeLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedRecentiores non deteriores: Indagine sui manoscritti recenti del Contra Iulianum di Cirillo AlessandrinoLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedAn Exegetical and Critical Note on Cic. Inv. 1, 10LicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedDer Daedalus der Dichter: Zur poetologischen Selbstdarstellung des didaktischen Ich bei LukrezLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedGallic War Songs: Furius Bibaculus’ Annales Belli GalliciLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedThe Second Person Indefinite and the Logic of Horace, Odes 1. 12. 29–36LicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedAugustinus grammaticus: De Magistro und Augustins Position innerhalb der spätantiken GrammatikLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedHes. Op. 824828: Una nuova propostaLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedCongetture al nuovo GalenoLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedIl significato della fulva nubes in De rerum natura 6, 461: Intorno ad un’ annosa questione LucrezianaLicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedZu Properz I 1,13LicensedNovember 26, 2010
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedPetronio Sat. 30.9: un testo precarioLicensedNovember 26, 2010