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HISTORY · POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

P. J. Rhodes

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Peter John Rhodes (10 August 1940 – 27 October 2021), usually cited as P. J. Rhodes, was a British historian of ancient Greece. He was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Durham. He specialized in Ancient Greek politics and political institutions.

Two large peninsulas project into the Mediterranean from Europe: Italy, dividing the whole into a western half and an eastern half, and Greece, subdividing the eastern half.

— from A History of the Classical Greek World, 2005

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HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL GREEK WORLD, 478-323 BC

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"This book gives an accessible account of classical Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. The author describes the years which witnessed the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the establishment of the Athenian empire; the Peloponnesian War, which involved the whole Greek world; the development of Macedonian power under Philip II; and the conquests of Alexander the Great."--Jacket.

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The Greek city states

1986

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Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added. Provides detailed coverage of Athens and Sparta, the best documented states, but also includes material on many other states in mainland Greece and outside. Extends in time from Homer to the Roman Empire. - Publisher.

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A commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion politeia

1981

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