Preface ; PART ONE: OATHS IN THE POLIS. 1 Introduction / A.H. Sommerstein ; 2 Oaths and citizenship / A.J. Bayliss (2.1 Initial considerations, 2.2 Oaths as stepping-stones to citizenship at Athens, 2.3 The Athenian ephebic oath, 2.4 The oath of the Spartan sworn bands (enōmotiai), 2.5 Citizenship oaths in new states, 2.6 Oaths in synoecisms) ; 3 Oaths of office / A.J. Bayliss (3.1 Royal oaths, 3.2 High officials: archons and generals, 3.3 The Athenian bouleutic oath, 3.4 Minor officials, 3.5 The exōmosia for office(s) ; 4 Assemblies / A.H. Sommerstein ; 5 The judicial sphere / A.H. Sommerstein (5.1 Homer and Hesiod, 5.2 Archaic practices and their survival; Gortyn, 5.3 Athens: introduction, 5.4 The dicastic oath, 5.5 Litigants' preliminary oaths, 5.6 Excusing absence, 5.7 Oath to avoid irrelevance?, 5.8 Oaths and oath-offers during court speeches, 5.9 Did witnesses swear?, 5.10 Refusing to testify: the exōmosia, 5.11 Oath-challenges, 5.12 The antidosis, 5.13 Arbitrators, 5.14 Homicide and the Areopagus, 5.15 Nomothetai, 5.16 Judges of festival competitions) ; 6 Sunōmosiai (conspiracies) / A.H. Sommerstein ; 7 (Re)uniting the citizen body ; PART TWO: OATHS AND INTERSTATE RELATIONS / A.J. Bayliss. Introduction ; 8 The formulation and procedure of interstate oaths (8.1 Rituals, 8.2 Gods invoked, 8.3 Divine punishment, 8.4 Giving and receiving oaths: who swears?) ; 9 Oaths in alliances (9.1 2We will fight together3, 9.2 The Oath at Plataea / L.A. Kozak, 9.3 Anti-deceit clauses, 9.4 Mutual-defence clauses, 9.5 Oaths to have the same enemies and friends: the Delian League oaths, 9.6 2The Lacedaemonians and their allies3

the oaths of the Peloponnesian League ~(9.6.1 The origins of the Bündnissystem: 2I will follow whithersoever the Spartans may lead3, 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 2full3 oath), 9.7 Oaths between multiple equals, 9.8 2Old3 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?, 10.5 The Peace of Nicias / L.A. Kozak, 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 Battlefield truces (11.1 Truces for collecting the dead

spondai peri nekrōn, 11.2 Other sworn truces) ; 12 Oaths and 2the barbarian3 / I.C. Torrance ; (12.1 The Trojan War, 12.2 Ritual and manipulation of language, 12.3 Persians: politics, perjury, approbation, 12.4 Conclusions) ; 13 Conclusion: the efficacy of oaths.