Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes [Hardcover]

This important volume collects essays on topics in Greek history and epigraphy by an international cast of highly respected historians and epigraphers. Contributions include new and authoritative papers on Athenian politics and political institutions, the language and significance of honorific decrees, the role of inscriptions in the Athenian democratic state and elsewhere, as well as analyses of the methods for interpreting them. Together this collection represents an appropriate celebration of the work of the distinguished historian Professor Peter Rhodes.Introduction - Lynette Mitchell and Lene RubinsteinThe rules of the game: three studies in friendship, equality and politics - Lynette MitchellCity elites and the administration of the Attalid kingdom after the peace of Apameia evidence, research and methodological thoughts - Boris DreyerAndragathia and arete - David WhiteheadThe crowning of Amphiaraos - Adele C. ScafuroNothing to do with democracy: 'Formulae of Disclosure' and the Athenian epigraphic habit - James SickingerThe politics of an epigraphic habit: the case of Thasos - Robin OsborneAteleia grants and their enforcement in the Classical and early Hellenistic periods - Lene RubinsteinA Note on Agyrrhios' Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 - Mogens Herman HansenAttic public inscriptions of the fifth-century BC in Ionic script - A.P. MatthaiouThe Gadatas letter - Christopher TuplinUnpublished ephebic list in the Benakion museum of Kalamata - Andronike MakresAthenian ostracism and ostraka: some historical and statistical observations - Valerij GushchinThucydides and the Athenian boule - Council of Five Hundred - Simon HornblowerIG ii2 236 and Philip's common peace of 337 - Ian WorthingtonWriting Greek history: an agenda for the next generation - J.K. DaviesLynette lSg