Oath
18 books featuring this symbol
An oath binds speech to transcendent witness and sanction. It stabilizes contracts and measures legitimacy through curse and blessing.
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Medea
Euripides
431 BCE
Greek
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
406-405 BCE
Greek
Jinn Lore and Desert Spirits
Anonymous
600-1900 CE
Arabic, Islamic
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson
1220-1230 CE
Germanic, Norse
Gesta Danorum
Saxo Grammaticus
1185-1222 CE
Germanic, Norse
Suppliants (Aeschylus)
Aeschylus
500-400 BCE
Greek
Ajax
Sophocles
450 BCE
Greek
Philoctetes
Sophocles
409 BCE
Greek
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
467 BCE
Greek
Hrólfs saga kraka
Anonymous
1200-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse
Helen
Euripides
412 BCE
Greek
Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird
Anonymous
2000-1500 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Gesta Hungarorum
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Slavic, Hungarian
Dongmyeongwangpyeon
Yi Gyu-bo
1193 CE
East Asian, Korean
The Illuyanka Myth
Anonymous
1400-1300 BCE
Levantine, Hittite
Táin Bó Regamna
Anonymous
1100-1400 CE
Celtic, Irish