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CRETE. Gortys #132741106
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CRETE. Gortys,The Roman Odeon.Gortys, the Roman capital of Crete, was first inhabited around 3000 B.C., and was a flourishing Minoan town between 1600-1100 B.C. It prospered during classical and Roman times, and was destroyed by an Arab invasion in A.D. 824. Among archaeologists, ancient historians, and classicists, Gortys is primarily known today because of the 1884 discovery of the Gortyn Code