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In Jiang's retelling, the Greek coalition binds itself by oath to defend Helen's marriage, and that preexisting vow becomes the reason Agamemnon feels compelled to appease Artemis and continue the war expedition.
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Oath
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For Aeneas, Jiang says the pledge of love is merely a word; the real obligation is his oath and loyalty to the gods.
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Because herding is volatile and boom-bust, pastoralists institutionalized loans, obligations, oath contracts, and fluid status rather than fixed bureaucratic slavery.
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"...still tries to steal helen it doesn't make sense it's an oath before the gods and so helen marries menelas uh the brother of..."
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"...like, no, we need to go to Troy because of this oath to the gods. And he talks to the prophet and says, what..."
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"...it's a word, it's nothing, all right? What matters is your oath to the gods."
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"What matters is your loyalty to the gods. All right, all right, keep going."
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"So cattle and sheep herds can grow rapidly with little luck. Vulnerable to bad weather and theft, they can also decline rapidly. Herding was..."
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"...Proto -Indo -European included a vocabulary about verbal contracts bound by oaths used in later religious rituals to subside the obligations between the weak..."
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"...host is a Christian. The host institution extended the protections of oath -bound obligations to new social groups. An Indo -European speaking patron could..."
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"...began we all have faith in your good offices without your oath as long as lack of power does"
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"...native Argos ever got the chance, I take revenge. And my oath provoked a storm of hatred. That was my first step on the..."
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"...directly appealed to the Iranian armed forces to fulfill their patriotic oath by abandoning the regime and protecting the people from foreign mercenaries like..."
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"...say. And I called the priests and made them take an oath to do as they had promised. I also shook out the folds..."
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"...and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God,"
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