Foto: left: Gortyn Code, 500-450 B.C. (Picture by Afrank99, CC BY-SA 2.5); middle: Lex de Imperio Vespasiani, 69-70 A.C. (Picture by Steve Kershaw, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0); right: Nash Papyrus, 2nd Century B.C. (Picture by University of Cambridge, CC BY-NC 3.0)