P. J. Rhodes

P. J. Rhodes is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Durham. He has specialized in Greek politics and political institutions,.^[1] His major works include the definitive modern treatment of the Athenian Council (or Boule), the now standard commentary on the constitutional treatise on Athens produced by Aristotle or under his supervision (the Athenaion Politeia), and a general book on Athens’ overseas empire. After gaining his doctorate from Oxford University, Rhodes taught at the University of Durham, in England, from 1965 until his retirement in 2005, becoming Professor in 1983.

Books

• The Athenian Boule, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972, rev. 1985.
• A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981, rev. 1993.
• The Athenian Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985, rev 1993.
• Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology, London: Duckworth, 2003.
• Greek Historical Inscriptions, 359-323 BC, 1972, rev. 1986
• A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia, 1981, rev. 1993
• The Greek City States: A Source Book, 1986, rev. and enlarged edition 2007.
• (with D. M. Lewis) The Decrees of the Greek States, 1997.
• A History of the Classical Greek World, 478-323 BC, 2005.
• (with R. Osborne) Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, 2003, corr. 2007.

Translated

• The Athenian Constitution, Penguin Classics, 1984.

Edited

• (with L. G. Mitchell) The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, 1997.
• D. M.Lewis's Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History, 1997.
• Athenian Democracy, 2004.
• (with E. E. Bridges and E. M. Hall) Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium, 2007.

References

1. ^ Profile on the Department of Classics, University of Durham, website

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