Michael (Professor Emeritus of Classics Gagarin Professor Emeritus of Classics University of Texas at Austin),Paula (Professor of Classics Perlman Professor of Classics University of Texas at Austin)
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This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions,
The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, refle