GORTYNA

gôrtīˈnə, ancient city, S central Crete. Under Rome it was one of the leading cities of the island. Many ancient Greek remains have been discovered on the site. An inscription dating from c.450 b.c. of a code of laws of inheritance, marriage, divorce, and other family matters was found on a wall in 1884, providing important insights into civil society of that time.

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A Manual of Greek Antiquities
Book by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons; Charles Scribners Sons, 1895
Subjects: Greece--Antiquities, Greece--Social Life And Customs
...03B1 , the suit goes against him; in Gortyna, under the code, as at Athens before Solon...the + +03C4 + +03B1+ +03C4 + of the Gortyna Code -- and failed to repay the sum, though in Gortyna lie was loco servi, was not servus. Thus...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
Book by Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Bible--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Greece--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Turkey--Antiquities--Guidebooks
...and light. The archaeological site of Gortyna (also known as Gortyn and Gortys) is...Allow approximately one hour for viewing. Gortyna is the largest archaeological site in...inhabitants. Through- out Roman imperial times Gortyna was the political center and chief city...
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The Early Christian Church - Vol. 2
Book by Philip Carrington; Cambridge University Press, 1957
Subjects: Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600
...to light in his Epistles. The Epistle to Gortyna is addressed to the church sojourning at Gortyna with the rest of the paroikiai of Crete...at Amastris with those throughout Pontus. Gortyna and Amastris, therefore, would seem to resemble...
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The Roman World
Book by Victor Chapot; Biblo-Tannen
Subjects: Rome--History
...Only two towns of this period are known: Gortyna, the capital of the double province...excavations have revealed the importance of Gortyna 3 and the buildings that were erected...view until the end of the third century. Gortyna was troubled by earthquakes, so several...
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El Greco Revisited: Candia, Venice, Toledo
Book by Pál Kelemen; Macmillan, 1961
Subjects: Greco--1541?-1614
...in the network of a vast empire, with Gortyna Gortys in the south as the capital...first Christian church was erected in Gortyna, and Pauls com panion Titus became the...Crete, and died there around A.D. 96. Gortyna lost its prominence in later centuries...
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Late Medieval Crete and Venice: an Appropriation of Byzantine Heritage
Journal article by Maria Georgopoulou; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Anthropology, Art history, Byzantine civilization, Culture, Middle Ages, Venice Italy
...Early Christian cathedral of Crete in Gortyna until the ninth-century invasion of the Muslims, when Gortyna was destroyed and the remains of the saint...ruined Early Christian cathedral in Gortyna--and his figure appears only in two...


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Greek
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 20, 2007
...while the most beautiful is on the other side of the island at Festos and Agia Triada. Festos and the nearby Greek ruins at Gortyna make for a great day out after a breakfast that will easily keep you going until lunch. Head for the beach at Matala and a...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gortyna  - 2 results

 
 
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Gortyna
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GORTYNA gorti n , ancient city, S central Crete. Under Rome it was one of the leading cities of the island. Many ancient Greek remains...
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Inscription
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...addition, there are accounts of expenditures in temples, annals (e.g., the Parian Chronicle on Paros ), codes of laws (at Gortyna ), decrees, bookkeeping accounts, lists of citizens, ostraca (see ostracism ), and many graffiti (wall scribblings...


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