Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Greek: Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα, pronounced [ˈɣortina]) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean...

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...

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...

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...

Roman aqueducts | Gortyn(a) (Greece / Crete). [Gortyn] Wikimapia location: Gortyn Roman circus. [Gortyn] The Circus | Circus of Gortyn at circusmaximus...

Inheritance law, part of the Law Code of Gortyn, Crete, fragment of the 11th column. Limestone, 5th century BC...

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...

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...

standard form (either rounded or pointed, ), there were forms as varied as (Gortyn), and (Thera), (Argos), (Melos), (Corinth), (Megara, Byzantium), and (Cyclades)...

cities that prospered on Crete during those times are Kydonia, Lato, Dreros, Gortyn and Eleutherna. In the Classical and Hellenistic period Crete fell into...

sons. In Sparta, they were called patrouchoi (πατροῦχοι), as they were in Gortyn. Athenian women were not allowed to hold property in their own name; in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ancient Archanes Armenoi Eleutherna Gortyn Gournia Hagia Triada Kommos Knossos Kydonia Lato Malia Monastiraki Phaistos Polyrrhenia Tylissos Zakros Museums...

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...

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...

by Asterion, their stepfather. He had two sons, Gortys (associated with Gortyn, Crete) and Erythrus (founder of Erythrae). Other sources (e.g. Plutarch...

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...

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...

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...

association with a goddess celebrating a mystic marriage. Inscriptions at Gortyn and Lyttos record a Velchania festival, showing that Velchanios was still...

Kannia was an ancient Minoan city close to Gortyn in south-central Crete. List of ancient Greek cities Matz, Friedrich - Crete and early Greece, the prelude...

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....

extravagance of funerals, and similar restrictions were also implemented at Gortyn, Mytilene, and Sparta. The archaic period saw the beginning of philosophical...

clear-cut, but Cartledge has argued that in Sparta kyrioi existed, although in Gortyn they do not appear to have done. The term "κύριος" is still in use in the...

Elateia through Thermopylae. En route, he was joined by forces from Aetolia, Gortyn in Crete, Apollonia, and Athamania. Philip marched south into Thessaly and...

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...

Archeologist Federico Halbherr at Gortyn (Crete, Greece), deciphering Gortys law code (inscription on the circular wall). As opposed to the rule of man...