Das archaische Kreta

Seelentag, Gunnar

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“…107 Sparta made few redistributive demands on its 97 Duplouy (2006); cf. Seelentag (2014) 125-26. 98 Van Wees (2008.…”

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…108 This 'aristocratization of the dāmos', as Seelentag puts it, fostered social cohesion among citizens whilst legitimizing elite dominance in politics. 109 Where, then, in Crete was there an outlet for status competition among citizen males? This drive was never nullified: rather, it was channelled into personal prowess at the racetrack, at feats of arms and those feats of intelligence that enabled warriors to succeed against a wily enemy.…”

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Lewis

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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The tactics of Cretan citizen armies differed markedly from those utilized in most regions of the Classical and Hellenistic Greek world: instead of fighting in phalanxes, Cretans fought in open order, specializing in archery, skirmishing, ambushes and night actions. These tactics (and the cultural attitudes that went with them) were disparaged by mainland Greeks such as Polybios and explained in terms of moral deviancy: a sign of the duplicitous nature of the Cretans. This article demonstrates that these descriptions of Cretan tactics and behaviours are factual, but argues against the idea that they derive from moral deviancy. Rather, they represent the outcome of a different line of historical development than that followed in mainland Greece. Cretan tactics and attitudes stand far closer to those described by archaic poets (especially Homer, Archilochos and Kallinos); in this regard, Cretan city states displayed strong continuities with archaic social practices and values, detectable in other areas of Cretan society and culture. The stability of Cretan sociopolitical organization from the late seventh century down to the Roman conquest fostered the endurance of such practices and attitudes, leading to cultural divergence from mainland Greece and, accordingly, a generally hostile representation of Cretans in our main historiographical sources.

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“…107 Sparta made few redistributive demands on its 97 Duplouy (2006); cf. Seelentag (2014) 125-26. 98 Van Wees (2008.…”

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Lewis

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…Ce n'est que par rapport du droit de famille que le gage apparaît dans la préface de son édition du "Grand code des lois de Gortyne". 8 Les monographies de S. Link (1994) et de G. Seelentag (2015) ne contiennent pas un seul chapitre sur le gage.…”

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Le gage dans les lois de Gortyne du Ve siècle avant J.-C.

Loginov¹,

Davydov²,

Zbarackij³

2022

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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The paper deals with the pledge in the Gortyn Laws of the 5th century BCE. It demonstrates that the pledge in Gortyn had a possessory character, so it assumed the transfer of ownership of the pledge to the pledgee. The subject of the pledge could be both movable and immovable property. There is neither hypothec nor sale on condition of release in Gortyn law. This fact can be explained by the absence of a land cadastre.

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The Re‐Emergence of Political Complexity

Whitley¹

2019

A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean

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Das archaische Kreta

Cited by 20 publications

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Le gage dans les lois de Gortyne du Ve siècle avant J.-C.

The Re‐Emergence of Political Complexity

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