Christian Thomsen's book offers a new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek city-state, challenging traditional assumptions and providing an analysis of political institutions that shaped the political landscape of the island state.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

A New Perspective on Political Organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the Ancient Greek City-State

The first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more than 20 years and one of the few books dedicated to a single Hellenistic city-state

Introduces the reader to Hellenistic Rhodes, an important, but also remarkably understudied, city-state of the ancient Greek and Roman world

Challenges traditional assumptions about political organization in the ancient Greek city-state

Documents the existence of an alternative conception of the ancient Greek city-state, which will inspire new approaches to the study of the ancient Greek city-state, politics and society

Christian Thomsen offers a study of political institutions on the island state of Rhodes - an important power in the eastern Mediterranean and the first city of the Hellenistic world

Using Aristotle's notion of the polis as an association of associations as its point of departure, Thomsen provides an analysis of political institutions, taking a broader view of what constitutes an institution than traditional studies of the ancient Greek city-state

Among the institutions surveyed are the family, civic subdivisions such as tribes and demes as well as private associations

He argues that these organisations served as important junctions in the networks of political elites and shaped the political landscape of Hellenistic Rhodes

Weight: 436g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474452557