... at a range of particular texts and occasions on which oaths and their breach come to the centre of attention, including the crucial thematic role of oaths in Aeschylus's Oresteia. Part III analyses the connections between Greek oath phenomena and those of other cultures such as the Near East...

... of the three plays of Oresteia, Persae, and a few other plays that do not begin with iambic trimeters. The chapter looks at the anapaestic opening that used to be part of the argument about the Suppliant Women being an early play. It discusses the plight of the Danaids...

...This chapter examines the thematic role of oaths in Aeschylus's Oresteia and how oaths were related to the Erinyes (also known as Curses, and midwives to the oath-god Horkos). It also considers how a series of flawed or failed oaths punctuates the action of the trilogy, eventually...