Source Criticism on The Law Code of Gortyn (Crete), c.450 BCE.
I am looking for a source criticism on the following passage:
The Law Code of Gortyn (Crete), c.450 BCE.
2. If one commits rape on a free man or woman, he shall pay 100 staters, and if on the son or daughter of an apetairos ten, and if a slave (dōlos) on a free man or woman, he shall pay double, and if a free man on a male (woikeus) or female serf (woikea) five drachmas, and if a serf on a male or female serf, five staters. If one force a female house-slave (endothidia) he shall pay two staters, but if one previously forced, in the daytime, an obol, but if at night, two obols. If one tries to seduce a free woman, he shall pay ten staters, if a witness testify…
III. If one be taken in adultery with a free woman in her father’s, brother’s, or
husband’s house, he shall pay 100 staters, but if in another’s house, fifty; and with the wife of an apetairos, ten. But if a slave with a free woman, he shall pay double, but if a slave with a slave’s wife, five. . .
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