ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the official buildings as they occur in the inscriptions, a treatment which will at least suffice to indicate the part which have played in the routine official activities of the states. In Crete, as people should expect, and as people have seen, this development was much slower. The literary and inscriptional evidence that has been surveyed gives no reason to suppose that this emphasis did not continue to remain dominant in the Cretan system of education. In the first period there was only a dromos, a running course or sports ground; the second was an archaic period for which Athens aifords examples; the third was the fourth century and the Hellenistic period; and the fourth was the Roman period. If the transaction was irregular, and had been rendered null and void through fraud, the official in charge of the archives could refuse to accept it for deposit.
