Description - Creativity of Crete by Malcolm Cross
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.
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