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2024, Symposion 2022: Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte, ed. P. Scheibelreiter
This contribution engages in the longstanding debate over servile status in ancient Crete and asks whether secure evidence exists for a ‘serf’ status bound to the soil. It concludes in the negative though an analysis of the terms dolos and woikeus in Gortynian law, the literary sources for Cretan servile status, and several Hellenistic treaties.
The Classical Review
Review of M. Gagarin & P. Perlman, The Laws of Ancient Crete, c. 650-400 BCE2017 •
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This article refers first to a faulty “master narrative” in our description and interpretation of political development in Archaic and Classical Greece, which is based upon a teleology of a road to (Athenian) democracy. These established views wrongly favor certain facets of the island’s polities that appear in Cretan laws. As an alternative, regarding the evidence at the center of the discussion on polis-formation, this contribution pleads for an interpretation of the development of Cretan institutions against the background of the Homeric and Hesiodic epics. In this way, it develops a model of sociopolitical integration of the elite and demos in the polis, which became possible through cooperation among the elites – also reflected in the epics.
A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders. Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete, Stuttgart: Steiner 1999, 181-220
Milking the Mountains: Economic Activities on the Cretan Uplands in the Classical and Hellenistic PeriodΣΤΕΓΑ: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete
Domus, Villa, and Farmstead: The Globalization of Crete2011 •
2014 •
Classical Cretan states are known to have had an unusual and distinctive character, contrasting markedly with that of their central Greek peers. Yet the histories of the latter have tended to dominate our understanding of the polis form. The factors contributing to this difference, and to the whole process of state emergence in Early Iron Age – Archaic Crete, have not been much analysed, restricting our understanding of the origins of the earliest consensualist political structures. Some scholars have explained Cretan divergence in terms of a particularly strong ›continuity‹ in the island's social and cultural frameworks from the Bronze Age into the state formation period. Others have seen immigration into Crete during the latter period as a major constructive influence (frequently citing some aspects of Archaic-Classical texts in support of their arguments). The EIA – A archaeological record should be our main source of information in testing these models, but has been under-in...
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originally published as "Regeln für den Kosmos. Prominenzrollen und Institutionen im archaischen Kreta, Chiron 39, 2009, 63–97" (The original pagination is given in square brackets)
Seelentag – Ordering the Kosmos. Roles of Prominence and Institutions in Archaic CreteTo be published in K. Vlassopoulos et al. (eds), Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (2015).
forthcoming Jursa & Tost Greek and Roman slaving in comparative ancient perspective: the state and dependent labourWorking in Greece and Turkey, A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940
Kaya, A. Y. “Were Peasants Bound To The Soil in the 19th C. Balkans?", in L. Papastefanaki and M. E. Kabadayı (eds.) Working in Greece and Turkey, A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940, Berghan Books, 2020.2020 •
Trade and Seafaring in Antiquity Red Sea – Persian Gulf – Indian Ocean Proceedings of the 1st Muziris Workshop, Trier, 28th May 2021 Edited by Stefan Baumann, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink, Sven Günther and Patrick Reinard
Patterns or Topoi? Modes of Socio-Economic Behavior of the Seres as Perceived by Greek and Latin Sources in Augustan Times2023 •
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The Military Orders Volume VII
The Hospitallers and their manumissions of Rhodian and Cypriot serfs (1409–1459)2020 •
originally published as "Die Ungleichheit der Homoioi. Bedingungen politischer Partizipation im archaisch-klassischen Kreta, Historische Zeitschrift 297, 2013, 320–53" (The original pagination is given in square brackets)
The inequality of homoioi. The conditions of political participation on Archaic and Classical CreteCultural Practices and Material Culture in Archaic and Classical Crete
Drinkers, Hosts, or Fighters? Masculine Identities in Pre-Classical Crete2014 •
2022 •
2019 •
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Classical Antiquity
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: The Economies of Archaic Eleutherna, Crete2004 •
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
[Review of: S. Wallace (2010) Ancient Crete: from successful collapse to democracy’s alternatives, twelfth to fifth centuries B.C]2011 •
Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente
“RATIONALISING” REDISTRIBUTION IN THE LATE EBA AEGEAN: PLAIN CUPS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF COLLECTIVE LABOUR IN THE EM III MESARA (CRETE)*2021 •