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...

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

Athenian couple would. The Gortyn Code gives information on the law surrounding marriage in ancient Gortyn. Though the code records the law, scholar Sue...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

are apparently an independent invention on arbitrary lines, like the Morse code; but Runes, which were extensively used in the same region, are derived from...

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,...

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...

BC) Gorgophone Gorgophone (Perseid) Gorgophonus Gorgus Gorgythion Gortyn Gortyn code Gortyna Graea Graeae Graecians Graecus Graphe paranomon Grave monument...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...