Intro -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Epigraphic Corpora -- Maps -- 1 Introduction -- Democracy, Classical and Hellenistic -- Disaggregating the Polis -- The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes -- 2 Rhodian Democracy -- Political Institutions -- Civic Careers -- Out of Office -- Wealth and the Magistrate -- 3 The Oikos -- Preserving the Oikos -- 4 Public Associations -- Being Lindian -- Demes against Demes -- 5 Private Associations -- Community Building -- Equality and Inequality in Private Associations
6 Private Associations and Human Resources -- The Rich and the Talented -- Political Associations -- 7 The Civic Aspirations of Private Associations -- The Public Relations of Private Associations -- Public Recognition -- Civic Virtues and Association Virtues -- Corporate Endorsements and the Rhodian Monumental Order -- Associations as Civil Society -- 8 The Corporate Polis -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum
Summary
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.
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