Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Greek: Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα, pronounced [ˈɣortina]) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean...
14 KB (1,501 words) - 12:23, 3 April 2024
The Gortyn code (also called the Great Code) was a legal code that was the codification of the civil law of the ancient Greek city-state of Gortyn in southern...
9 KB (1,264 words) - 00:40, 16 June 2024
Marriage in ancient Greece (section In Ancient Gortyn)
information available about marriage in the city of Gortyn in ancient times, in the form of the legal text the Gortyn code. The ancient Greek legislators considered...
34 KB (4,893 words) - 15:54, 16 September 2024
Roman aqueducts | Gortyn(a) (Greece / Crete). [Gortyn] Wikimapia location: Gortyn Roman circus. [Gortyn] The Circus | Circus of Gortyn at circusmaximus...
75 KB (3,438 words) - 14:20, 16 September 2024
6th to 4th centuries BC, Crete was comparatively free from warfare. The Gortyn code (5th century BC) is evidence for how codified civil law established...
104 KB (10,639 words) - 15:09, 23 September 2024
Church of Crete (redirect from Metropolis of Gortyn and Arkadia)
composed of: the Archbishopric of Crete, based at Heraklion the Metropolis of Gortyn and Arkadia, based at Moires the Metropolis of Rethymno and Mylopotamos...
6 KB (346 words) - 20:49, 3 September 2024
Gortyna /ɡɔːrˈtaɪnə/ (Ancient Greek: Γόρτυνα; also known as Gortyn (Γορτύν)) was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form...
10 KB (1,324 words) - 00:36, 28 July 2024
Slavery in ancient Greece (section Slaves in Gortyn)
was prosecuted, at least occasionally. A fragment of the Gortyn code in Gortyn, Crete In Gortyn, in Crete, according to a code engraved in stone dating...
68 KB (9,374 words) - 12:36, 20 September 2024
Inheritance law, part of the Law Code of Gortyn, Crete, fragment of the 11th column. Limestone, 5th century BC...
81 KB (9,403 words) - 10:23, 22 September 2024
the Greek island of Crete built a 50 km road leading from the palace of Gortyn on the south side of the island, through the mountains, to the palace of...
106 KB (10,297 words) - 18:35, 23 September 2024
cities that prospered on Crete during those times are Kydonia, Lato, Dreros, Gortyn and Eleutherna. In the Classical and Hellenistic period Crete fell into...
42 KB (5,481 words) - 17:09, 16 July 2024
interconnected to various other residences, most notably Hagia Triada and Gortyn. Hagia Triada has a smaller palace which may have been connected to the...
26 KB (2,968 words) - 03:44, 6 August 2024
goddess of Athens, but also other cities, including Pergamon, Argos, Sparta, Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa. The various cults of Athena were all branches of her...
124 KB (13,036 words) - 15:26, 22 September 2024
association with a goddess celebrating a mystic marriage. Inscriptions at Gortyn and Lyttos record a Velchania festival, showing that Velchanios was still...
203 KB (17,341 words) - 20:40, 23 September 2024
type, which may be considered as the predecessors of the Doric columns. Gortyn (Crete). A temple of Pythian Apollo, was built in the 7th century BC. The...
221 KB (25,308 words) - 08:38, 26 September 2024
bowstring in torsion, as goddess of hunting in the island of Kos and at Gortyn. She is the sister of "Apollo Toxias". Triclaria, at Patras. Her cult was...
199 KB (21,652 words) - 01:48, 17 September 2024
that it was formed naturally. Another contender is a series of tunnels at Gortyn, accessed by a narrow crack but expanding into interlinking caverns. Unlike...
38 KB (4,540 words) - 03:06, 16 September 2024
write a letter to the community in Athens in the year 139.[citation needed] Gortyn on Crete was allied with Rome and was thus made capital of Roman Creta et...
118 KB (14,487 words) - 20:40, 23 September 2024
Ancient Archanes Armenoi Eleutherna Gortyn Gournia Hagia Triada Kommos Knossos Kydonia Lato Malia Monastiraki Phaistos Polyrrhenia Tylissos Zakros Museums...
59 KB (4,214 words) - 07:09, 4 September 2024
standard form (either rounded or pointed, ), there were forms as varied as (Gortyn), and (Thera), (Argos), (Melos), (Corinth), (Megara, Byzantium), and (Cyclades)...
13 KB (1,372 words) - 00:21, 23 August 2024
Part of the Gortyn Law Code, an ancient constitution engraved on a wall for public showing at Gortyn, Crete....
64 KB (8,695 words) - 20:01, 19 July 2024
movement until the Archaic age. Records also exist of women in ancient Delphi, Gortyn, Thessaly, Megara, and Sparta owning land, the most prestigious form of...
202 KB (22,827 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2024
constitution (late 7th century BC) Solonian Constitution (early 6th century BC) Gortyn code (5th century BC) Twelve Tables of Roman Law (451 BC) Edicts of Ashoka...
4 KB (481 words) - 08:46, 3 July 2024
movement until the Archaic age. Records also exist of women in ancient Delphi, Gortyn, Thessaly, Megara and Sparta owning land, the most prestigious form of private...
29 KB (3,400 words) - 18:21, 16 September 2024
establish. Marc Van De Mieroop suggests that it may have influenced the Greek Gortyn Code and the Roman Twelve Tables. However, even Van De Mieroop acknowledges...
101 KB (10,005 words) - 21:35, 23 September 2024
of Tyana, who lived a part of his life in Crete and died there. Found in Gortyn (late 2nd century AD), now in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete....
8 KB (980 words) - 19:21, 4 September 2024
by Asterion, their stepfather. He had two sons, Gortys (associated with Gortyn, Crete) and Erythrus (founder of Erythrae). Other sources (e.g. Plutarch...
9 KB (1,083 words) - 06:10, 7 September 2024
territory of Leben, and was distant 70 stadia from the sea, and 180 from Gortyn. The site was populated in Neolithic times, and remnants of Minoan and Mycenaean...
3 KB (455 words) - 16:00, 13 February 2024
by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna (also called Gortyn). But the first undoubted Aegean remains reported from it were a few objects...
23 KB (3,162 words) - 01:32, 25 September 2024