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Oath-Taking

The sworn invocation of gods as witnesses and avengers to guarantee a promise, treaty, or testimony, often sealed by sacrifice, libation, or touching a sacred object.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  3. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  4. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  5. Agesilaus
    Athens · -354
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  6. Memorabilia
    Athens · -354
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  7. Constitution of the Lacedaimonians
    Athens · -354
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  8. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
    explains
  9. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  10. Description of Greece
    — · 180
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  11. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Herodotus, Histories 3.8.1↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 4.70.1↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 6.86C.2↗challenges

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.24.9↗explains

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Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 28↗explains

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Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians 15.7↗explains

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Xenophon, Hellenica 1.3.12↗explains

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Xenophon, Hellenica 3.4.6↗explains

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Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.9↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 4.154.4↗applies

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Herodotus, Histories 4.172.3↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 4.201.2↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 4.201.3↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 4.68.2↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 7.11.2↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 7.132.2↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.20.9↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.24.10↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.24.11↗explains

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Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.10↗explains

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