P J Rhodes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 326839 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | P J Rhodes |
| NOMBRES | P J |
| APELLIDO | Rhodes |
| FIRMA | RHODES P J |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 139 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 559 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Kleroterion
An Athenian device introduced in the fourth century bce for making allotments, for example of men to hold office or serve on juries.
Old Oligarch
The Old Oligarch is the name given to the author of the Athenaion politeia ( Constitution of the Athenians ), which has been preserved among the works of Xenophon.
Thucydides’ Use of Evidence and Sources
This chapter analyses Thucydides use of sources and his approach to evidence. It surveys his (possible) use of documentary sources and eye-witness testimony, before going on to discuss specific types of evidence cited in the text: inscriptions, letters, poetry and prose writing. The second part of the chapter explores the ways in which Thucydides’ approach to history (and to the writing of history) might have influenced his use of sources, drawin…
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
Directions in the Study of Athenian Democracy
Research into Athenian democracy in the past few decades has raised new issues and thrown new light on old ones. The mechanics of the democracy, the involvement of the citizens (and the distinction between them and non-citizens), the identification and distribution of demes and trittyes, have all been clarified more precisely than they had been; the extent to which the elites could control or were controlled by the masses, the nature and the prev…
Tyranny in Greece in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
In a world in which it was easy to contrast slavery as being ruled by others with freedom as the power to rule others, it might have been said that subjection to a tyrant was bad but being a tyrant was good if one could get away with it. But in the fourth century Plato and Aristotle created a contrast between kings as good rulers and tyrants as bad rulers, which has been standard ever since. However, recent studies have tried to move away from th…
Nemesis
Periclean Athens
Book abstract: In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles became the leading figure in the city's public life. This concise and accessible introduction guides students through the key aspects of this most-studied period of ancient Greek history, focusing on the major developments, political and cultural, that took place under Pericles Although …
Erasures in Greek Public Documents
The Greeks destroyed documents or erased parts of them when they had served their purpose or for any reason were no longer wanted. Sometimes this was due to a change in the political climate: e.g. in 200 BCE the Athenians decided to delete all references to the Antigonids in public documents. I examine particular erasures from the fifth and fourth centuries: these range from the correction of simple errors, via rewording to meet the wishes of hon…
Herodotus and Democracy
This chapter surveys the words used by Herodotus to characterize political entities and regimes. It then studies his use of them in particular contexts, and argues that the contrast most important to him was between freedom and despotism. Herodotus approved of freedom, but, although he sometimes used the language of democracy with reference to freedom, he did not distinguish between democracy and oligarchy except in his Persian Debate, and he did…
Greek Historical Inscriptions: 478–404 BC (Revised Edition)
Demagogues and Demos in Athens
M. I. Finley sought to rescue the ‘demagogue’ as an essential ingredient in Athens’ democratic processes. This paper explores the interactions of politicians and the assembly. There is some evidence for pressure on men to attend and to vote on a particular side. There were many occasional speakers and proposers in addition to the few most active politicans. We should not think of a series of duels; and experienced assembly-goers were not mere ‘sp…
A Short History of Ancient Greece
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual contours of the modern world. P J Rhodes is among the most distinguished historians of antiquity. In this elegant, zesty new survey he explores the…
Articles
Clisthène et Lycurgue d'Athènes
Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard (Histoire ancienne et medievale, 109, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne), Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011, 406 pp., 8 figures, €30.00 (paperback), IS
The Cambridge Ancient History
THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY Get access P. J. RHODES P. J. RHODES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 135–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02529.x Published: 06 February 2014
Documents and archives
Although in the Greek states and in Rome literacy was less widespread and oral communication was more important than it is in the more developed parts of the modern world, businesses – both of states and of individuals or groups of individuals – generated documents, which were stored and published in various ways.
Kleroterion
An Athenian device introduced in the fourth century bce for making allotments, for example of men to hold office or serve on juries.
Democracy, Athenian
By ca. 500 BCE many Greek states had developed to a stage where all free native men who were rich enough to fight as Hoplites in the state's army were citizens with some degree of political power.
Graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai
An Athenian lawsuit (“public suit for proposing an inexpedient law”), available for one year against the proposer and indefinitely against the law (cf. Dem. Lept . 144 and hyp . 2.3), in fact on the grounds either that the law was inexpedient or that it was illegal.
Representation/representative government
While in modern states decision‐making is regularly entrusted to representative bodies, in classical Greek states the ultimate decision‐making body was usually an assembly open to all adult males who qualified as full citizens in the state in question.
Polis
During the Archaic and Classical periods, the polis (“city‐state”) became the characteristic, though not the universal, primary political unit of the Greeks, and the unit on which their political philosophy was based.
Constitution of the Athenians , [Aristotle]
The Constitution of the Athenians is the only surviving work from a collection of 158 Constitutions (Politeiai) written in Aristotle's school in the fourth century BCE : it comprises a history of the constitution itself, down to the end of the fifth century, and an account of how it worked at the time of writing.
Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-323 B.C
Книга представляет собой богатое собрание греческих надписей периода 404-323 гг. до н.э. с параллельным переводом на английский язык и историко-филологическими комментариями. Избранные тексты освещают не только основные события политической и военной истории древней Греции, но и реалии административной, социальной, экономической и религиозной жизни
The Athenian boule
Founded by Solon and remodelled by Cleisthenes, the boule was an important legislative council of ancient Greece which acted as a standing committee of the Athenian assembly. This book begins with a detailed account of the members and organization of the council, and then goes on to examine its legislative, administrative, and judicial functions. A concluding chapter summarizes the history of the boule and assesses its key role in the machinery o…
Race-of-Interviewer Effects
Although 'racial matching' of interviewer and subject may often be appropriate, as a political strategy it risks marginalisation of black researchers and, as a methodological approach, its assumption of a single 'truth' is open to challenge. These issues are explored through an examination of public and private accounts and their relationship to race-of-interviewer effects and a discussion of the author's experience of conducting interviews with …
The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
Tables. Figures. Contributors. References. 1. Introduction P.J. Rhodes 2. The Copenhagen Inventory of Polis and the Lex Hafniensis de Civitate Mogens Herman Hansen 3. The 'Origins of the Greek Polis': where should we be looking? John K. Davies 4. The relations of power in the pre-state and early state politics Walter Donlan 5. Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis Kurt A. Raaflaub 6. Lopping off the heads: tyrants, politi…
Bastards as Athenian Citizens
A. R. W. Harrison in The Law of Athens , i (O.U.P., 1968), 63–5, argued that the exclusion of bastards from the phratries and the severe restriction of their right of inheritance does not entail their exclusion from Athenian citizenship; and that the form of Pericles' citizenship law, not stating that were to be , and Solon's law restricting the inheritance rights of , both point to the conclusion that bastards were not ipso facto debarred from c…
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
The Decrees of the Greek States
The many states of the ancient greek world were governed by small councils and assemblies of adult male citizens. The decisions of these bodies took the form of decrees. This book collects the evidence for decrees, many of which were inscribed on stone or metal, or appear in literary texts - either directly quoted, or indirectly reported. This evidence is used by Professor Rhodes, with Professor Lewis, to study the decision-making procedures of t…
Nomothesia in fourth-century Athens
There have been two recent attempts to disentangle the evidence for the procedures in fourth-century Athens for the enactment and revision of nomoi , by D. M. MacDowell and by M. H. Hansen. I have learned from both, but think that further progress can be made. MacDowell distinguishes five separate measures: ( b ) The Old Legislation Law, requiring action at a specified time, advance publicity for the new proposal, concurrent repeal of any existin…
Pisistratid Chronology Again
SINCE THE PUBLICATION Of the Athenaion Politeia, in 1891, the problems of Pisistratid chronology have been endlessly discussed; inclusive and exclusive methods of counting have been combined in many permutations, emendations of A.P.'s text have abounded, and the principles involved have sometimes been obscured. In offering yet another discussion I hope to make these principles clear, and at any rate to narrow the range of possibilities.' Now, as …
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars
This book addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early 5th century bc. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaiss…
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued …
Demagogues and Demos in Athens
M. I. Finley sought to rescue the ‘demagogue’ as an essential ingredient in Athens’ democratic processes. This paper explores the interactions of politicians and the assembly. There is some evidence for pressure on men to attend and to vote on a particular side. There were many occasional speakers and proposers in addition to the few most active politicans. We should not think of a series of duels; and experienced assembly-goers were not mere ‘sp…
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Revised Edition)
The Dionysia and Democracy Again
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Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology
How should we study the democracy of classical Athens? How, if at all, is it relevant to our own world with its different forms of democracy? Attitudes to Athenian democracy have always been affectd by the circumstances of those studying it; but, after a period in which scholars professed objectivity and impartiality as their ideal, the possibility of attaining that ideal has been questioned, and ideological commitment and relevance to contempora…
Athenian Democracy
Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the direct government of the people by the people. Liberty meant above all freedom of speech, the right to be heard in the public assembly and the right to …
The Greek City States
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 Gr…
Selected Papers in Greek and near Eastern History
After the Three-Bar Sigma Controversy
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Sessions of Nomothetai in Fourth-Century Athens
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Deceleans and Demotionidae again
The dossier of decrees concerning the Deceleans and the Demotionidae of Athens (IG ii 1237) presents fascinating problems and has attracted plentiful discussion. For a long time there has been a division between the view of Wilamowitz and his followers, that the Demotionidae were a phratry and the Deceleans a privileged genos within it, and that of Wade–Gery refined by Andrewes, that the Deceleans were a phratry and the Demotionidae a privileged …
The Athenian Assembly - Mogens Herman Hansen
The Athenian Assembly - Mogens Herman Hansen: The Athenian Ecclesia, II: a Collection of Articles, 1983–89. (Opuscula Graecolatina, 31.) Pp. vii + 324; 3 figs., 2 plates. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1989. D.kr. 235 (Paper, D.kr. 185). - Volume 41 Issue 2
Herodotus and Democracy
This chapter surveys the words used by Herodotus to characterize political entities and regimes. It then studies his use of them in particular contexts, and argues that the contrast most important to him was between freedom and despotism. Herodotus approved of freedom, but, although he sometimes used the language of democracy with reference to freedom, he did not distinguish between democracy and oligarchy except in his Persian Debate, and he did…
Ancient Athens
This paper looks at the principal features of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century BC and of the Delian League, the fifth-century alliance which became an Athenian empire, and asks how it was that at the same time the Athenians built up an unprecedented degree of democracy in their internal affairs and an unprecedented degree of rule over other Greek states
The Athenian Boule
The Athenian Agora
Pisistratid Chronology Again
SINCE THE PUBLICATION Of the Athenaion Politeia, in 1891, the problems of Pisistratid chronology have been endlessly discussed; inclusive and exclusive methods of counting have been combined in many permutations, emendations of A.P.'s text have abounded, and the principles involved have sometimes been obscured. In offering yet another discussion I hope to make these principles clear, and at any rate to narrow the range of possibilities.' Now, as …
Bastards as Athenian Citizens
A. R. W. Harrison in The Law of Athens , i (O.U.P., 1968), 63–5, argued that the exclusion of bastards from the phratries and the severe restriction of their right of inheritance does not entail their exclusion from Athenian citizenship; and that the form of Pericles' citizenship law, not stating that were to be , and Solon's law restricting the inheritance rights of , both point to the conclusion that bastards were not ipso facto debarred from c…
Constitution of the Athenians
"Constitution of the Athenians" published on by null.
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Revised Edition)
Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC
This volume is a successor to the second volume of M. N. Tod's Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions (OUP, 1948). It provides an up-to-date selection - with introduction, Greek texts, English translations, and commentaries which cater for the needs of today's students - of inscriptions which are important for the study of Greek history in the fourth century BC. The texts chosen illuminate not only the mainstream of Greek political and milita…
Autonomia
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia
The Athenian boule
Founded by Solon and remodelled by Cleisthenes, the boule was an important legislative council of ancient Greece which acted as a standing committee of the Athenian assembly. This book begins with a detailed account of the members and organization of the council, and then goes on to examine its legislative, administrative, and judicial functions. A concluding chapter summarizes the history of the boule and assesses its key role in the machinery o…
Nomothesia in fourth-century Athens
There have been two recent attempts to disentangle the evidence for the procedures in fourth-century Athens for the enactment and revision of nomoi , by D. M. MacDowell and by M. H. Hansen. I have learned from both, but think that further progress can be made. MacDowell distinguishes five separate measures: ( b ) The Old Legislation Law, requiring action at a specified time, advance publicity for the new proposal, concurrent repeal of any existin…
Cart ledge and Harvey's Crux
Athens after the Peloponnesian War
The Athenian Assembly - Mogens Herman Hansen
The Athenian Assembly - Mogens Herman Hansen: The Athenian Ecclesia, II: a Collection of Articles, 1983–89. (Opuscula Graecolatina, 31.) Pp. vii + 324; 3 figs., 2 plates. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1989. D.kr. 235 (Paper, D.kr. 185). - Volume 41 Issue 2
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
The Athenian revolution
Themistocles was responsible for the rebuilding of Athens' walls after the Persian Wars. Themistocles and Cimon were rivals as individuals, and stood for different views of Athens' recent history and different views of the foreign policy which Athens ought to pursue. In the sixth century, the archonship had been the most important office of the Athenian state. The new organization given to the Athenian state by Cleisthenes required a considerable…
The Delian League to 449 b. c.
In its early years, the Delian League was both a body fighting against Persia on behalf of the Greeks and a body through which Athens found opportunities to extend her own power. Friendship between Sparta and Athens came to an end as a result of the Messenian War which followed the great earthquake of 464. In Greece Athens' new alliances, and the desire to conquer Aegina at last, drew her into the First Peloponnesian War. War against the Persians…
Thucydides
This book is a continuation of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an introduction (on Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War), Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful not only to specialists but also to readers who know little or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. Matters of text and language are discussed when necess…
The polis and the alternatives
FOURTH-CENTURY ATHENS: THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT Formally, Athens had the same constitution from the tribal reorganization of Cleisthenes in 508/7, or at any rate from the reform of the Areopagus by Ephialtes in 462/1, until the suppression of the democracy by Antipater at the end of 322/1: the oligarchies of 411–410 and 404/3 were brief interruptions, each ending with the restoration of the democracy. The working of this democracy in the time …
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued …
Race-of-Interviewer Effects
Although 'racial matching' of interviewer and subject may often be appropriate, as a political strategy it risks marginalisation of black researchers and, as a methodological approach, its assumption of a single 'truth' is open to challenge. These issues are explored through an examination of public and private accounts and their relationship to race-of-interviewer effects and a discussion of the author's experience of conducting interviews with …
Hellenistic and Roman Athens
We lack the literary evidence to give us the kind of picture for hellenistic Athens that we can obtain for the classical period, but behind the generally uninspiring and uninformative published texts of the hellenistic period we can sometimes pick up the influence on legislation of institutional groups or of individuals.
Syria
In this meagre collection of texts from Syria, iv 1261, from Laodicea in 174, is procedurally the most interesting. The city has a royal agent styled epistates (cf. Polyb. v. 48. xii, referring to Seleucea).
Caria
In Aph. & Rome 2 men to be appointed as envoys must be distinguished and pro-Roman, but in Le Bas & Waddington 16 n any citizen who wishes may prosecute. The latter decree contains an entrenchment clause.
Achaea
As stated this is a negative rule that a synkletos cannot be summoned except for specified business: A argued that he has misstated the positive rule that a synkletos must be summoned for specified business (cf. under 168a); L and W accept that there was a negative rule. The origin of this business is in a meeting not even of the council but of the archai (10. ii): from the eminent names A suggests that ex-strategoi were included.
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