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Our beloved polites : studies presented to P.J. Rhodes / edited by Delfim Leao [and three others].

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Leão, Delfim Ferreira, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Greece--History--To 146 B.C.
Greece.
Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2022]
Summary:
Twenty-eight contributions pay tribute to one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life and work which has been and will continue to be a major reference for scholars around the world. The volume is organised in four sections: History and Biography, Law, Politics, and Epigraphy.
Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
A Tribute to P. J. Rhodes: An Overview
PJR: An Appreciation
John Davies
Part I - History and Biography
The Controversy Between Herodotus and Hecataeus: History and Competition in the Histories 2.143.
Denis Correa
Thucydides on Athens’ Goals in Sicily, 427-424 and 415-412 BC
Robert W. Wallace
Reading Thucydides’ Mythological Stories: Alcmaeon in The Peloponnesian War
Amanda Ledesma Pascal
Ionians in the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia: The Battle of Ephesus (Hell. Oxy. 1-3)
Antonis Tsakmakis
Lycurgus’ Biography and Constitution in Ephorus’ Fragments
Martina Gatto
Nuno Simões Rodrigues
The Sacred Band of Thebes and Alcibiades’ Exemplum (Plutarch, Pel. 18-19 and Alc. 7.3-6)
Sailing Directions Echoes of Ancient Nautical Knowledge in the Periplous of Ps.-Skylax
Chiara Maria Mauro
Heraclides’ Epitome of the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia
Gertjan Verhasselt
A bastard Pharaoh: Why Ptolemy XII Auletes was not the Son of a Ptolemaic Princess
Antony Keen
Part II - Law
Aristophanes on Solon and His Laws
Delfim Leão
Legal Theory, Sophistic Antilogy: Antiphon’s Tetralogies Generated by AI.
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ISBN:
9781803271712
180327171X
OCLC:
1344540989

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