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First published in 2006. A rapid advance of Cretan studies in recent years is a measure of their importance for our understanding of the early history of European civilization. It is now generally recognized that the island of Crete played a part in this early history which is out of all proportion to its size. This book offers information on the social history: from early times until the Roman Occupation
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Subject Index
Accounts, 17, 74
Achaean League, 145–6, 156
Acropolis, 57
Administration, 5–6, 60–1, 65–6, 70, 73–4, 79,
Administrators, 45
Adolescence, 112
Adolescents, 113
Adoption, 13, 40, 84, 88–9
Adultery, 84, 94, 100
Aegean Civilization,
Age-grades, 111–14, 117
Agela, 112–15, 117–18, 120, 123, 134; see also ‘Herd’
Agora, 57–8, 74; see also Market-place
Agoranomoi, 74
Agriculture, 5, 7, 41, 43–6, 48, 50, 86, 130, 132–3, 139, 150
Alienation, 88,
Aliens, 62–3, 73, 105–9
Alliance, 67, 72, 120–1, 145, 151, 150
Allies, 9, 71, 118, 145–6, 150–6
Almonds, 38
Alphabet, 14, 18–19, 27, 52, 76
Altars, 87, 112, 121, 123
Ambassadors, 79, 144, 147
Amber, 53
Ancestor, 40, 88, 111, 130
Anchorage, 37
Andreia, 60, 114
Anebos, 113
Animals, 17, 39–40, 81–2, 92, 100, 121, 123–4-, 126–30, 132–3
Anoros, 11nthropology, 90, 114
Antiquity, 7, 9, 10–11, 15, 24, 37–8, 73, 95, 100, 119, 124, 127, 132, 137, 140
Apageloi, 113–14
Apetairoi, 93–4, 97, 103, 105
Apodromos, 11pples, 38
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- I. Introduction
- II. The Coming of the Dorians
- III. Economic Life
- IV. The City-States and their Government
- V. Law and Legal Procedure
- VI. The Citizens
- VII. Serfs and Slaves
- VIII. Other Social Classes
- IX. Education
- X. Religion
- XI. Pirates and Mercenaries
- XII. Political History
- Chronological Table
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Deities, Persons, Places