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Creativity of Crete - City States and the Foundations of the Modern World (Paperback)
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Creativity of Crete - City States and the Foundations of the Modern World (Paperback)
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Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Crete is famous for its Minoan civilization, which by 1200BC had
come to an end. It is far less well known that less than 600 years
later, Crete pioneered the idea of the 'city-state' and developed
it for longer than anywhere else in the ancient Greek world.
Thought by Homer to have numbered up to one hundred, even the
whereabouts of many of the cities at the heart of these tiny states
is now unknown. This original book describes 65 sites from the
Classical (500-330 BC) and Hellenistic (330-67 BC) periods and
argues that the achievements of the city-states should be more
adequately recognized. If codes of law existed elsewhere at an
earlier date, none developed the rule of law before Cretan
city-states. While ancient Athens famously developed a form of
democracy, Cretan city-states created constitutions and elected
assemblies that gave rise to another variant of democracy. Although
the Greeks did not invent coinage, it was adopted with great
enthusiasm in Crete and by the late fourth century BC the island
possessed more than forty mints producing interchangeable coins.
Aristotle recognized that Crete was ideally sited to exploit
trading opportunities, and this book provocatively argues that the
rule of law, representative democracy and a monetary system enabled
it to do so. The wealth this trading generated attracted the
interest of Rome whose invasions between 69 and 67 BC brought an
end to the island s independence. Written for the general reader
with an interest in Mediterranean civilizations, archaeology,
classics or ancient history, the text includes a unique gazetteer
summarizing the literature on 65 archaeological sites, together
with appropriate maps and coordinates.
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