Professor P J Rhodes FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1987
- Year of birth
- 1940
- Year of death
- 2021
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
P. J. Rhodes studied at Oxford and since 1965 was based in Durham as Professor of Ancient History 1983-2005 and as Honorary and Emeritus Professor since then. He was a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy, a Fellow of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla and an honorary member of the Greek Epigraphic Society; he was President of the Classical Association 2014-2015; and he was awarded a Chancellor's Medal by the University of Durham in 2015. He held visiting fellowships at various Oxford colleges, and in various places outside the UK. His main area of academic activity was ancient Greek history, in particular the politics of both political institutions and political activity, and the sources for ancient history, both literary and epigraphic.
Last post
University of Durham Honorary Professor; Emeritus Professor of Ancient History
Past appointments
University of Durham Professor of Ancient History
1983 - 2005
University of Durham Lecturer; Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History
1965 - 1983
British Academy appointments
Vice-Chairman of Classical Antiquity Section
Chairman of Classical Antiquity Section
Publications
A History of the Classical Greek World, 478-323 BC
P. J. Rhodes - Published in 2005 by Oxford University Press
Greek Historical Inscriptions 404 - 323 B.C.
P. J. Rhodes with R.G. Osborne - Published in 2003 by Oxford University Press
A commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia
P. J. Rhodes - Published in 1981 by Oxford University Press
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