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    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...
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    Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Greek: Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα, pronounced [ˈɣortina]) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean...
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    Athenian couple would. The Gortyn Code gives information on the law surrounding marriage in ancient Gortyn. Though the code records the law, scholar Sue...
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    Code of Hammurabi on later law collections is difficult to establish. Marc Van De Mieroop suggests that it may have influenced the Greek Gortyn Code and...
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    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...
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    at least occasionally. A fragment of the Gortyn code in Gortyn, Crete In Gortyn, in Crete, according to a code engraved in stone dating to the 3rd century...
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  • island of Crete. She also worked on excavating artifacts related to the Gortyn code and is most noted for her publications regarding that inscription. She...
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    Gortyna (section Law code)
    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...
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  • legal agreements. While some of its older forms can be studied in the Gortyn code, its influence can be traced in legal documents preserved in Egyptian...
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  • by Greek indie developer Konstantinos Apostolakis under the name of "Gortyn Code". The game was released for Android on 12 May 2019. In Ninja Tag Team:...
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  • his family line. The earliest references to Greek adoption are in the Gortyn Code, where an adopted son had fewer inheritance rights than a son by birth...
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    to 4th centuries BC, Crete was comparatively free from warfare. The Gortyn code (5th century BC) is evidence for how codified civil law established a...
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  • BC) Gorgophone Gorgophone (Perseid) Gorgophonus Gorgus Gorgythion Gortyn Gortyn code Gortyna Graea Graeae Graecians Graecus Graphe paranomon Grave monument...
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    holding the office of kosmos is paralleled in an inscription from Gortyn (the Gortyn code), also on Crete, though there the restriction on holding the office...
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    Friedman attributed Deuteronomy 26:1–15 to the original Deuteronomistic law code (Dtn). He attributed Deuteronomy 26:16–28:35, 28:38–62, and 28:69–29:8 to...
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    1904 until his death. After discovering in 1857 a first fragment of the Gortyn code, his most famous archaeological discovery was made while on an expedition...
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    early 5th centuries BC containing the Gortyn code on family law, which was found in the 1884-87 excavations at Gortyn – a cast of it is on display in the...
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  • a courtesan. 5th century BC Gortyn (Gortyn Code, also called the Great Code): Some of the laws of the Code were: The code dictates higher fines for adultery...
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  • prosecution being ended in this way, but decisory oaths are mentioned in the Gortyn code. Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed.). p. 1101. ISBN 0314151990. Merryman...
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    Crete, and was a major contributor in the excavation and study of the Gortyn Code ("Leggi di Gortina") on civil rights. Federico Halbherr, Ernst Fabricius...
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  • mission in Crete in 1878–1879 where he identified two new fragments of the Gortyn code. A lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of Caen (1880-1883), a substitute...
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    to take command. They were both epigraphists. The Gortyn code had been turning up piecemeal at Gortyn. A number of other agencies were on-site. At first...
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    modern Italian archaeological season in Greece with the discovery of the Gortyn Code. So on May 9, 1909, the Italian parliament approved the R.D. n. 373,...
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    Epikleros (section Gortyn)
    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...
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    activities. The Gortyn law code granted women a much better position than in mainland Greece. All women, including slaves, were protected. Gortyn women, like...
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  • Archeologist Federico Halbherr at Gortyn (Crete, Greece), deciphering Gortys law code (inscription on the circular wall). As opposed to the rule of man...
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  • wife's property owing to his role as her kyrios. In other cities, such as Gortyn and Sparta, it appears that married women had the right to use their property...
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    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...
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    led by Cylon of Athens around 636 BC, Draco was appointed to establish a code of laws in 621. This failed to reduce the political tension between the poor...
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    cities that prospered on Crete during those times are Kydonia, Lato, Dreros, Gortyn and Eleutherna. In the Classical and Hellenistic period Crete fell into...
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