The Manipulation of Signs in Herodotos' Histories

Hollmann, Alexander

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“…Our sources make it clear that fraudulent claims could be made by both the depositor and the trustee,17 and 14 The relatively frequent accusations of perjury should been seen as a reflection of the fact that the very nature of a sworn agreement inevitably implies that a false oath might be sworn, or that the oath might be broken, rather than the fact that oaths were actually frequently broken. As Hollmann (2005, 286, citing Burkert 1996 notes, "the institution of the oath is inevitably accompanied by that of the false oath". 15 See p. 281 and S&B 168.…”

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“…Although modern scholars seem united in their condemnation of Amasis' ruse,65 Herodotus (4.201) makes it clear that this was not a false oath, explicitly stating that the Persians destroyed the bridge "in order to abide by the oath sworn with the Barcaeans".66 The difference between Amasis' deliberate manipulation of the oath-exchange and that of the Locrians may be that Amasis can be seen to be righting a wrong by his actions. The purpose of his campaign was to punish the citizens of Barca for the slaying of King Arcesilaus of Cyrene and King Alazir 64 Hollmann 2005, 286. Lateiner (2012 argues that the Barcaeans were "depending on a geographical stability lodged in a formula of impossibility".…”

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Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

Sommerstein¹,

Torrance²

2014

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This volume completes the publication of the project The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, based at the University of Nottingham and funded by the Leverhulme Trust (award no. F.00 114/Z), whose assistance is warmly acknowledged. The main previous publications of the project have been the Nottingham Oath Database (Sommerstein, Bayliss and Torrance 2007) and Oath and State in Ancient Greece, edited by Sommerstein and Bayliss and referred to in this volume as S&B.The authors have in broad terms a common view of the nature and effect of oaths as a cultural phenomenon of ancient Greek society, as will be apparent from this volume, though -as will also be apparent -they inevitably disagree on matters of detail and nuance and on the interpretation of some particular passages and incidents.The several chapters of the volume deal with different aspects of the oath phenomenon, and it thus inevitably often happens that the same passage is discussed from different points of view in more than one chapter.We should draw attention to a peculiarity in the chapter numbering. There are some tall buildings that have no thirteenth floor, and some books in which chapter 14 directly follows chapter 12; this volume, contrariwise, has both a chapter 13 and a chapter 13a. This is because there are several references in S&B to specific numbered chapters of the present volume, and changes in the chapter plan since the publication of S&B would otherwise have rendered some of these references incorrect.The acknowledgements made in the preface to S&B apply equally to this volume, and are gratefully reiterated. But it is particularly appropriate, on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Classics of the University of Nottingham, that Alan Sommerstein should record explicitly his deep appreciation of all that the University, the Department, the School of Humanities, their academic and administrative staffs, and not least their students, have done to assist and encourage him over all but forty years, and especially over the ten years of the Oath project.

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Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

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“…The sign itself is not enigmatic, but its use is. I am sympathetic to the signbased approach to Herodotean communication ofHollmann 2005 and 2011, however. 10 For discussion of oracular language in Herodotus generally,see Fairbanks 1906; Kindt 2006, forthcoming;and Barker 2006. …”

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Wackernagel’s Law and the Fall of the Lydian Empire

Goldstein¹

2013

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This paper offers a novel reading of the Delphic oracle's response to Croesus's question of whether he should attack Persia (Herodotus 1), by focusing on a previously unacknowledged feature of the oracular answer: the preposing of the adjective μεγάλην. Preposing is a construction in which an element occurs before the start of the clause proper. In the oracle's response, preposing serves a corrective function. As preposing creates surface exceptions to Wackernagel's Law, it is only through an accurate understanding of the "Law" that we can even detect this construction. Working within a framework of (neo-) Gricean pragmatic theory, I detail the semantic and pragmatic contribution of preposing in the oracular response. More broadly speaking, I suggest that Gricean pragmatics can provide new insights into classical texts by offering a principled method for decoding implicit meaning.

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“…1.29, 1.146, 4.201, 5.106, 9.26. 234 Για την χρήση των οπτικών συµβόλων ως απόδειξη της µη αναστρεψιµότητας της απόφασης των ορκιζοµένων, βλ Hollmann (2005). 286.235 Ηρόδ.…”

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2) Όροι σηµασιολογικά συγγενείς µε τον όρκο, οι οποίοι εκφράζουν συναφείς έννοιες, οι οποίοι ωστόσο, δεν συνιστούν από µόνοι τους ρητή και έγκυρη µαρτυρία όρκου, χωρίς την συνδροµή άλλων στοιχείων, διακριτικών του όρκου.Ένας εξ αυτών είναι το ουσιαστικό πίστις, 53 που δηλώνει την εγγύηση και µε βάση την αριστοτελική ταξινόµηση των εννοιών, 54 µπορεί να θεωρηθεί ως το γένος στο οποίο εντάσσεται ο όρκος ως είδος. 55 Ο συγκεκριµένος όρος απαντά στις Ιστορίες µε τις εξής µορφές: α) τρεις φορές στον ενικό αριθµό, σε συνδυασµό µε τον όρκο, 56 β) µία φορά στον ενικό αριθµό, 57 ως συνώνυµο του ὅρκου, επιλογή δικαιολογηµένη, καθώς ο όρκος είναι η πιο ισχυρή µορφή πίστεως, γ) επτά φορές µόνος του στον πληθυντικό αριθµό, 58 δ) δύο φορές, µία στον ενικό και µία στον πληθυντικό, σε συνδυασµό µε το ουσιαστικό λόγους. 59 Ειδικότερα οι Έλληνες που αντάλλαξαν λόγον καὶ πίστιν, στο 7.145, χαρακτηρίζονται, στο 7.148, ως συνωμόται, γεγονός που µαρτυρεί ότι, και στην συγκεκριµένη περίπτωση, ο όρος πίστις χρησιµοποιείται ως σηµασιολογικό ισοδύναµο του ὅρκου, υποκαθιστώντας τον στον παραδειγµατικό άξονα. 60 53 Για την σηµασία του όρου πίστεις και την σχέση του µε τον ὅρκο, βλ.

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The Manipulation of Signs in Herodotos' Histories

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Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

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