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Prof. P. J. Rhodes, FBA

Emeritus Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History

Member of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Contact Prof. P. J. Rhodes, FBA (email at p.j.rhodes@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

P. J. Rhodes was the Department's specialist in Greek history from 1965 to 2005 (Professor of Ancient History from 1983); since his retirement in 2005 he has been Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor. He is author of The Athenian Boule (1972, rev. 1985), Greek Historical Inscriptions, 359-323 BC (1972, rev. 1986), A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (1981, rev. 1993), The Athenian Empire (1985, 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), Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology (2003), (with R. Osborne) Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC (2003, corr. 2007), A History of the Classical Greek World, 478-323 BC (2005, 2nd ed. 2010) and Alcibiades (2011). He has translated The Athenian Constitution for Penguin Classics (1984), has produced editions of Thucydides, Books II (1988), III (1994), and IV.1-V.24 (1998), and The Old Oligarch (with J. L. Marr, 2008), and has 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), and (with E. E. Bridges and E. M. Hall) Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium (2007).

He is a contributor to the 2nd edition of the Cambridge Ancient History, to the 3rd and 4th editions of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, to Der neue Pauly and to the Blackwell-Wiley Encyclopedia of Ancient History. He has been a Consultant to the Copenhagen Polis Centre, and is a member of the editorial board of Bryn Mawr Classical Review (U.S.A.) and of the international advisory boards of Acta Antiqua (Hungary),.Mouseion (Canada), Grammateion (Greece) and Scripta Classica Israelica.

He has been a Junior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., and has also held visiting fellowships at the University of New England, Australia, and under the auspices of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2002 he was Langford Family Eminent Scholar at Florida State University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, where he was vice-chairman of the Classical Antiquity Section 1999-2002 and chairman 2002-5, and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy, a Fellow of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla and an Honorary Member of the |Greek Epigraphic Society.

Research Interests

Greek history and historical literature
Greek politics and political institutions

Publications

Books: authored

Rhodes, P.J. (2011). Alcibiades. Pen and Sword Books.
Rhodes, P.J. (2010). A History of the Classical Greek World: 478 - 323 B.C. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). The Greek City States: A Source Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rhodes, P.J. (2005). A History of the Classical Greek World, 478 - 323 B.C. Oxford: Blackwell.
Rhodes, P.J. (2003). Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology. London: Duckworth.
Rhodes, P. J & Osborne, Robin (2003). Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404 - 323 B.C. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Books: edited

P. A. Low, G. J. Oliver & P. J. Rhodes (2012). Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern. Proceedings of the British Academy 160. Oxford University Press.
Harris, E. M., Leao, D. F. & Rhodes, P. J. (2010). Law and Drama in Ancient Greece. London: Duckworth.
Bridges, Emma, Hall, Edith & Rhodes, P. J. (2007). Cultural responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rhodes, P.J. (2004). Athenian Democracy. Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Essays in edited volumes

Rhodes, P.J. (2011). Appeals to the Past in Classical Athens. In Stablilty and Crisis in the Athenian Democracy. Herman, G. Steiner. Historia Einzelschriften 220: 13-30.
Rhodes, P.J. (2011). Biaios Didaskalos? Thucydides and His Lessons for His Readers. In Thucydides -- A "Violent Teacher"? History and Its Representations. Rechenauer, G. & Pothou, V. V&R Unipress. 17-28.
Rhodes, P.J. (2011). Response to Griffith and OKell. In Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics. Carter, D.M. Oxford Univertsity Press. 237-241.
Rhodes, P.J. (2010). "Lycurgan" Athens. In Philathenaios: Studies in Honour of M. J. Osborne. Tamis, A., Mackie, C. J. & Byrne, S. G. Athens: Greek Epigraphic Society. 81-90.
Rhodes, P.J. (2010). Stability in the Athenian Democracy after 403 B.C. In Zwischen Monarchie und Republik. Linke, B., Meier, M. & Strothmann, M. Stuttgart: Steiner. 67-75.
Rhodes, P.J. (2010). The "Assembly" at the End of Aristophanes' Knights. In Law and Drama in Ancient Greece. Harris, E. M., Leao, D. F. & Rhodes, P. J. London: Duckworth. 158-168.
Rhodes, P.J. (2010). The Literary and Epigraphic Evidence: to the Roman Conquest. In A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Roisman, J. & Worthington, I. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 23-40.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Civic Ideology and Citizenship. In A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought. Balot, R.K. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 57-69.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Epigraphy. In The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Boys-Stones, G. R., Graziosi, B. & Vasunia, P. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 709-719.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Political Leagues (other then Sparta's) in Xenophon's Hellenika. In The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika. Strassler, R.B. New York: Pantheon Books. 369-373.
Rhodes, P.J. (2008). Making and Breaking Treaties in the Greek World. In War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History. de Souza, P. & France, J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 6-27.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). Democracy and Empire. In The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles. Samons, L.J. & II New York: Cambridge University Press. 24-45.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). Documents and the Greek Historians. In A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography. Marincola, J. Oxford.: Blackwell. 1: 56-66.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). Oaths in Political Life. In Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society. Sommerstein, A. H. & Fletcher, J. Exeter: Bristole Phoenix Press (an imprint of Exeter Press). 11-25, 220-223.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). The Impact of the Persian Wars in Classical Greece. In Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium. Bridges, E., Hall, E. & Rhodes, P. J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 31-44.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). 'Classical' and 'Hellenistic' in Athenian History. In Greek and Hellenistic Studies. Dabrowa, E. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press. 27-43.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). The Literary Sources. In A Companion to the Classical Greek World. Kinzl, K.H. Oxford: Blackwell. 26-44.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). The Non-Literary Written Sources. In A Companion to the Classical Greek World. Kinzl, K.H. Oxford: Blackwell. 45-63.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). Thucydides and Athenian History. In Brill's Companion to Thucydides. Rengakos, A. & Tsakmakis, A. Leiden: Brill. 523-546.
Rhodes, P.J. (2004). The Laws of Athens in the Athenaion Politeia. In Nomos: Direito e Sociedade na Antiguidade Classica. Leao, D. F., Rossetti, L. & Fialho, M. do Ceo G. Z. Coimbra / Madrid: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Ediciones Clasicas. 75-87.
Rhodes, P.J. (2000). Oligarchs in Athens. In Alternatives to Athens: Varietries of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece. Brock, R. w. & Hodkinson, S. J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 119-136.
Rhodes, P.J. (2000). Who Ran Democratic Athens?. In Polis and Ploitics; Studies in Ancient Greek Society Presented to Mogens Herman Hansen. Flensted-Jensen, P., Nielsen, T. H. & Rubinstein, L. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 465-477.

Translated: Book

Rhodes, P. J. & Xydopoulos, I. K. (trans.) (2011). Hoi hellenikes poleis-krate: mia sylloge pegon . Papadema
Rhodes, P. J. & Trzcionkowski, L. (trans.) (2009). *Rhodes, P. J., Historia Grecji Okres klasyczny 478-323 p.n.e (A History of the Classical Greek World, 478-323 B.C.). Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press

Journal papers: academic

Rhodes, P.J. (2011). The Dionysia and Democracy Again. Classical Quarterly n.s. 61(1): 71-74.
P. J. Rhodes (2011). The Erxadieis Inscription. Acta Antiqua Hungarica 51: 9-15.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Ancient Athens: Democracy and Empire. European Review of History 16: 210-215.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). How Seriously Should We Take the Old Oligarch?. Pegasus 52: 8-13.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Hyperides' Against Diondas: Two Problems. Bulletin of the Institute of Clsassical Studies 52: 223-228.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). State and Religion in Athenian Inscriptions. Greece and Rome n.s. 56: 1-13.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Thucydidean Chronology. Acta Antiqua Hungarica 49: 353-358.
Rhodes, P.J. (2008). After the Three-Bar Sigma Controversy: The History of Athenian Imperialism reassessed. Classical Quarterly n.s. 58: 500-506.
Carey, C., Edwards, M., Farkas, Z., Herrman, J., Horvath, L., Mayer, G., Meszaros, T., Rhodes, P. J. & Tchernetska, N. (2008). Fragments of Hyperides' Against Diondas from the Archimedes Palimpsest. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 165: 1-19.
Rhodes, P.J. (2008). Thucydides and His Audience: What Thucydides Explains and What Ge Does Not. Acta Antiqua Hungarica 48: 83-88.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). Dioikesis. Chiron 37: 349-362.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). Milesian Stephanephoroi: Applying Cavaignac Correctly. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 157: 116.
Rhodes, P.J. (2003). Sessions of Nomothetai in Fourth-Century Athens. Classical Quarterly n.s. 53: 124-129.

Book chapters: online

Rhodes, P.J. (2008). Greek City-State. In Encarta Encyclopaedia. Encarta.

Edited works: conference proceedings

Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Response to David Whitehead. Symposion 2007 of Gesellschaft fuer Griechisch und Hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte, Durham, England, Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Rhodes, P.J. (2007). The Cambridge Ancient History. Classical Books: Scholarship and Publishing in Britain Since 1800, Cambridge, Institute of Classical Studies.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). Democracy and Its Opponents in Fourth-Century Athens. Democrazia e antidemocrazia nel mondo greco, Chieti, Edizioni dell' Orso for Univ. Chieti-Pescara.
Rhodes, P.J. (2006). The Reforms and Laws of Solon: An Optimistic View. Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, Nijmegen, Brill.
Rhodes, P.J. (2004). Aristophanes and the Athenian Assembly. Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens: Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell, Glasgow, Classical Press of Wales.
Rhodes, P.J. (2003). Herodotean Chronology Revisited. Herodotus and His World; Essays from a Cinference in Memory of George Forrest, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Scholarly Editions

Hammond, J. M. & Rhodes, P. J. (orig.) (2009). Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War: translated with an introduction and notes . Oxford: Oxford University Press
Marr, J. L. & Rhodes, P. J. (orig.) (2008). The 'Old Oligarch': The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to Xenophon . Oxford: Aris & Phillips (imprint of Oxbow)

Short Works

P. J. Rhodes (Published). Two Lectures on Athenian History.
Rhodes, P.J. (2009). Athens in the Fourth Century B.C.
Rhodes, P.J. (2005). Euthynai (Accounting): A Valedictory Lecture Delivered Before the University of Durham. 15.