Preface -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE: OATHS IN THE POLIS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Oaths and citizenship -- 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 -- 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 -- 5 The judicial sphere -- 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) -- 7 (Re)uniting the citizen body -- PART TWO: OATHS AND INTERSTATE RELATIONS -- 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 "We will fight together" -- 9.2 The Oath at Plataea -- 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 "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? -- 10.5 The Peace of Nicias -- 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 "the barbarian" -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of names and topics -- Index locorum.