The Law Code Of Hammurabi

The earliest Greek philosophy was established on the island of Crete, not far from the mainland of Peloponnesus and Sparta .The Law Code of Gortyn was written in approximately 450 BCE, nearly thirteen hundred years after the Code of Hammurabi. Although the Code of Hammurabi was a document referred to for criminal law and procedure, Law Code of Gortyn gives insight on what relations and Greek traditions rather than actual law . Law Code of Gortyn is the largest document displaying the law of the Greeks still in existence . This inscription gives us an idea of what it was like to live in Greece, more specifically the island Crete, during this particular time period. This text correlates significantly with the information collected through historians,
This tradition also can be applied to the people of Ancient Greece. It was a common rule that the father held all authority over his children and the mother, as well as her division of the property; as long as the father lived, his property will remain his and shall not be purchased . Discussing later on in more detail, it was a new concept that women owned property, but it was still necessary for the patriarch to remain in control. The Law Code of Gortyn also states another instance that the patriarch held the household power. The father has the prerogative of the child when a woman bears a child while living apart from the husband; if the husband chooses to reject the child when the woman presents the child to him it will then be placed under the guardianship of its mother . Men were the only people who could adopt . The adoption was made in a public place to males that have come of age. Women were banned from adopting, placing most of activities of Greek society on the men. The ranks of Greek society were extremely partial to the patriarch system ; the system consisted of the older-male at the top of the caste, passed down to the younger-males of the household, then to the women and