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Aeschines, Letters, 3.109-3.113


nanCollecting a great force of the Amphictyons, they enslaved the men, destroyed their harbor and city, and dedicated their land, as the oracle had commanded. Moreover they swore a mighty oath, that they would not themselves till the sacred land nor let another till it, but that they would go to the aid of the god and the sacred land with hand and foot and voice, and all their might.


nanThey were not content with taking this oath, but they added an imprecation and a mighty curse concerning this; for it stands thus written in the curse : “If any one should violate this,” it says, “whether city or private man, or tribe, let them be under the curse,” it says, “of Apollo and Artemis and Leto and Athena Pronaea.”


nanThe curse goes on: That their land bear no fruit; that their wives bear children not like those who begat them, but monsters; that their flocks yield not their natural increase; that defeat await them in camp and court and market-place, and that they perish utterly, themselves, their houses, their whole race; “And never,” it says, “may they offer pure sacrifice unto Apollo, nor to Artemis, nor to Leto, nor to Athena Pronaea, and may the gods refuse to accept their offerings.”


nanAs a proof of this, let the oracle of the god be read; hear the curse; call to mind the oaths that your fathers swore together with all the other Amphictyons. Oracle [;Ye may not hope to capture town nor tower, Till dark-eyed Amphitrite's waves shall break And roar against Apollo's sacred shore.]; ibl


nanThis curse, these oaths, and this oracle stand recorded to this day; yet the Locrians of Amphissa , or rather their leaders, most lawless of men, did till the plain, and they rebuilt the walls of the harbor that was dedicate and accursed, and settled there and collected port-dues from those who sailed into the harbor and of the deputies who came to Delphi they corrupted some with money, one of whom was Demosthenes.


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1. Hebrew Bible, Esther, 9.5, 9.7-9.10, 9.13-9.14 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

9.5. וַיַּכּוּ הַיְּהוּדִים בְּכָל־אֹיְבֵיהֶם מַכַּת־חֶרֶב וְהֶרֶג וְאַבְדָן וַיַּעֲשׂוּ בְשֹׂנְאֵיהֶם כִּרְצוֹנָם׃ 9.7. וְאֵת פַּרְשַׁנְדָּתָא וְאֵת דַּלְפוֹן וְאֵת אַסְפָּתָא׃ 9.8. וְאֵת פּוֹרָתָא וְאֵת אֲדַלְיָא וְאֵת אֲרִידָתָא׃ 9.9. וְאֵת פַּרְמַשְׁתָּא וְאֵת אֲרִיסַי וְאֵת אֲרִדַי וְאֵת וַיְזָתָא׃ 9.13. וַתֹּאמֶר אֶסְתֵּר אִם־עַל־הַמֶּלֶךְ טוֹב יִנָּתֵן גַּם־מָחָר לַיְּהוּדִים אֲשֶׁר בְּשׁוּשָׁן לַעֲשׂוֹת כְּדָת הַיּוֹם וְאֵת עֲשֶׂרֶת בְּנֵי־הָמָן יִתְלוּ עַל־הָעֵץ׃ 9.14. וַיֹּאמֶר הַמֶּלֶךְ לְהֵעָשׂוֹת כֵּן וַתִּנָּתֵן דָּת בְּשׁוּשָׁן וְאֵת עֲשֶׂרֶת בְּנֵי־הָמָן תָּלוּ׃ 9.5. And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them." 9.7. And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha," 9.8. and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha," 9.9. and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha," 9.10. the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand." 9.13. Then said Esther: ‘If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.’" 9.14. And the king commanded it so to be done; and a decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons."
2. Homer, Iliad, 2.52 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2.52. /but Agamemnon bade the clear-voiced heralds summon to the place of gathering the long-haired Achaeans. And they made summons, and the men gathered full quickly.But the king first made the council of the great-souled elders to sit down beside the ship of Nestor, the king Pylos-born.
3. Homeric Hymns, To Apollo And The Muses, 541-544, 540 (8th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE)

540. Pray to me as Delphinius; furthermore
4. Antiphon, Orations, 5.11-5.12 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Aristophanes, Knights, 297, 296 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

296. ὁμολογῶ κλέπτειν: σὺ δ' οὐχί.
6. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 554-556, 403 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

403. νὴ τὸν Ποσειδῶ τὸν ἁλυκὸν δίκαιά γε.
7. Euripides, Ion, 1526 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Herodotus, Histories, 7.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7.2. But while Darius was making preparations against Egypt and Athens, a great quarrel arose among his sons concerning the chief power in the land. They held that before his army marched he must declare an heir to the kingship according to Persian law. ,Three sons had been born to Darius before he became king by his first wife, the daughter of Gobryas, and four more after he became king by Atossa daughter of Cyrus. Artobazanes was the oldest of the earlier sons, Xerxes of the later; ,and as sons of different mothers they were rivals. Artobazanes pleaded that he was the oldest of all Darius' offspring and that it was everywhere customary that the eldest should rule; Xerxes argued that he was the son of Cyrus' daughter Atossa and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom.
9. Isaeus, Orations, 7.28 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

10. Plato, Critias, 119e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

119e. hunted after the bulls with staves and nooses but with no weapon of iron; and whatsoever bull they captured they led up to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of the pillar, raining down blood on the inscription. And inscribed upon the pillar, besides the laws, was an oath which invoked mighty curses upon them that disobeyed. Crit. When, then, they had done sacrifice according to their laws and were consecrating
11. Plato, Laws, 664c (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

664c. but we shall also convince those who need convincing more forcibly than we could by any other assertion. Clin. We must assent to what you say. Ath. First, then, the right order of procedure will be for the Muses’ choir of children to come forward first to sing these things with the utmost vigor and before the whole city; second will come the choir of those under thirty, invoking Apollo Paian as witness of the truth of what is said, and praying him of grace to persuade the youth.
12. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.27, 3.37-3.48, 5.84-5.116 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

13. Aeschines, Letters, 1.114, 2.87, 2.115, 3.99, 3.107-3.108, 3.110-3.113, 3.119-3.121, 3.125 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

14. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.283, 19.172, 19.219-19.220, 21.119, 23.67-23.68, 24.148-24.151, 29.26, 29.33, 29.54, 47.73, 49.66-49.67, 54.4, 54.38, 54.41, 59.1, 59.6 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

15. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 79, 20 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

16. Plutarch, Solon, 11 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

17. Aeschines, Or., 3.108-3.109, 3.118-3.121

18. Andocides, Orations, 1.31, 1.96-1.98, 1.126

19. Andocides, Orations, 1.31, 1.96-1.98, 1.126

20. Epigraphy, Ig I , 383, 136

21. Epigraphy, Ig I , 383, 136

22. Epigraphy, Ig Iii3 Appendix, 70, 74, 69



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aeschylus, anachronisms Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
aeschylus, local, in panhellenic ritual setting Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
aetolian oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
aiakos Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
aigina, aiginetans Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
aiskhines Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
amphictyonic league Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 37
amphiktyony, delphic, contested rule Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 197
amphiktyony, delphic, introducing notion of hellas Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 197
amphiktyony, delphic Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
animals as oath sacrifices Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
anthela (seat of earlier amphiktyony) Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
aphrodite paphia Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
apollo, lykeios Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
apollo, pythios Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
apollo paian (healer) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
apollo pythios Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
apollo pythios (delphi) Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
archons oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
areopagus council, ephebic oath Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
areopagus council Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 37
asine Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
athena, itonia Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
athena nike Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
athena pallas Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
athena pallenis, league of Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
athena pronaia Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
athens Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
bendis Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
buildings in the shrine of artemis Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
coinage Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
competitive oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
curse-tablets Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
dekeleieis Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
delphi, amphictiony Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 249
delphi, kirrha/krisa Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 249
delphi, third sacred war Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 249
demeter and kore Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
demonicus (cyprian nobleman), demophantus, oath of Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21, 37
demotionidai Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
destruction Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
diōmosiai Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
epeian oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
ephebic oath Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
fear of divine Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 37
feasting, and (exclusive) cult community Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
first-fruits (ἀπαρχή), of apollo pythios Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
first-fruits (ἀπαρχή), ἐπαρχή for bendis Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
from the temene of athena itonia Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
funerary, local myth in panhellenic Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
genocide Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
greece Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
hippocratic oath Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
history and oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
homicide trials, oaths in Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21, 37
insular, panhellenic Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
law, amphictionic Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 249
law-courts, witnesses oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
legitimacy Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
locality, and panhellenism Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
megara, dispute with athens over the sacred orgas Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 249
memories, kept alive or evoked in ritual, contested, of conflict Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
military Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
myth, and unjustly acquired power Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
narrative Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
nemean games Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
neoptolemos, and sacred war Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
neoptolemos, and thessaly/hellas and amphiktyony Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 197
neoptolemos Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
new gods, construction of Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 118
oath-challenges Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
oath of hannibal, philippos Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 118
oath of the epheboi Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 118
official oaths, archons oath of office Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
official oaths, phratry oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21, 37
oinoe, ὀργάς Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
other gods, treasury/treasurers of Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
palladium Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
panhellenic sanctuaries, not quite panhellenic Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
panhellenism, contested visions of Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
panhellenism, delphi and Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
panhellenism, expressed in song Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
panhellenism, panhellenic cult community, forging of Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
panhellenism Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
paris (hero), parnassos, peoples in Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 197
phocaean oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
phocians, control delphi Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 249
phokis Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 197
piedmont, and neoptolemos Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
pleistos valley Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
poseidon halykos Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
power Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
pythian games Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
reciprocity, theoric Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
rome Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
ruin (atē), enact self-curses Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21, 33
ruin (atē), sacrificial rituals and oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
sacred orgas (ἱερὰ ὀργάς) Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27, 249
sacrilege Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
sanctuaries, controversial control of Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
sanctuaries, from local to theoric Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
sausage-seller (knights) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
scythian oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
self-curses, competitive Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 33
self-curses, in law-court speeches Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
social change, memory of maintained in religious practice Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
sphagia (slaughtered offerings) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
status Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
temnein (to cut) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
theoria, reciprocity Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
theoxenia, delphi, defining hellenicity (greekness) Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
theoxenia, delphi Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
thermopylai Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
thessaly, and delphic amphiktyony Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
thessaly, role in shaping hellenicity Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197
thiasoi Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (2011) 27
threat of violence Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 76
tomia (cut pieces) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
witnesses oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 21
xenia rituals' Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 197
xenia rituals Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196
zeus hellanios Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 196, 197