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The laws of Ancient Crete : c.650-400 BCE /

This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown, are accompanied by an English translation and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gagarin, Michael (Author), Perlman, Paula Jean (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Language Notes:Text in English and Ancient Greek.
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Law, Greek > History.
Law > Greece > Crete > History.
Inscriptions, Greek > Greece > Crete.
Crete (Greece) > History > To 67 B.C.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Law.
Law, Greek.
Greece > Crete.
To 67 B.C.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Archaic and classical Crete : unity or diversity?
  • Setting the stage
  • The inscriptions
  • Persons
  • Social institutions
  • Economy
  • Inter-polis relations
  • Religion
  • Law
  • Texts.