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    contained Archaic inscriptions, one of which, famous as the Dreros inscription, the "sacred law of Dreros", is the earliest complete record of constitutional...
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    Eteocretan texts are from Praisos (Strabo's Πρᾶσος); the others were found at Dreros (modern Driros). There are five inscriptions which are clearly Eteocretan...
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    The Dreros inscription is the earliest surviving inscribed law from ancient Greece. It was discovered in Dreros, an ancient settlement on the island of...
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    stylobate measuring 21.00 x 43.00 m. The number of pteron column was 6 x 14. Dreros (Crete). The temple of Apollo Delphinios dates from the 7th century BC,...
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    frogs is exclusively the one Leto appeared in. In Crete, at the city of Dreros, Spyridon Marinatos uncovered an eighth-century post-Minoan hearth house...
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    (end 3rd century BC) Orestas (son of Erymneus) from Aspendos, proxenos in Dreros (Crete), (end 3rd - beginning 2nd century BC) Thymilus of Aspendos, stadion...
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    Crete. Helios was also invoked in an oath of alliance between Knossos and Dreros. In his little-attested cults in Asia Minor it seems his identification...
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    an "early form of the temple is the hearth house; the early temples at Dreros and Prinias on Crete are of this type as indeed is the temple of Apollo...
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    however, comes from Crete, where, e.g. in the Temple of Apollo Delphinios at Dreros three votive statuettes have been found in an excellent state of preservation...
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  • Temple of Apollo, Thermon Temple of the Delians, at Delos Temple of Apollo, Dreros, Crete Temple of Apollo, Gortyn, Crete Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros, Eretria...
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  • the instances of Caeculus at Praeneste and other settlements in Crete (Dreros, Hierapytna, Praisos, Lyttos, Knossos). These events all had a religious...
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    Dorian cities that prospered on Crete during those times are Kydonia, Lato, Dreros, Gortyn and Eleutherna. In the Classical and Hellenistic period Crete fell...
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  • violation of the law in question. The earliest Greek law to survive is the Dreros inscription, a seventh century BC law concerning the role of kosmos. This...
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    Dorians also colonised Crete including founding of such towns as Lato, Dreros and Olous. The Cynurians were originally Ionians but had become Dorian under...
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  • Macedonia Dodona, Epirus Dorio, Peloponnese Drapetsona, Athens, Attica Dreros, Crete Dystos, Central Greece Eadion at Salamis, Attica Eani, West Macedonia...
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    Dorian city evolved in the Archaic Period in a similar vein as did Lato and Dreros, its contemporaneous Dorian counterparts. In 220 BC the city of Eleutherna...
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    slavery that had run rampant in Athens by the 6th century BC, by debt relief. Dreros inscription – the earliest surviving inscribed law from ancient Greece....
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  • excavated on Crete included Messara, Sklavokampos, the Geometric temple at Dreros, Tylissos and Eileithyia Cave. As was common practice for Greek archaeologists...
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    identified in Greek city-states such as the neighboring poleis of Lato and Dreros. View of Azoria from Southwest Interior of Monumental Civic Building from...
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  • constitution Dragon's teeth (mythology) Dragons in Greek mythology Drakaina Dreros inscription Droop cup Drosera (naiad) Dryad Dryas (mythology) Dryas of Calydon...
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