A History of the Classical Greek World: 478 - 323 BC 2nd Edition

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This extremely up to date and knowledgeable work is more in-depth than a simple overview. Rhodes is an editorial genius and supplies the source citations unobtrusively for every single thing he says. You can thus track down the basis of every claim or statement. His judgment is also excellent on everything. As a graduate student preparing for examinations I found it invaluable. It will also be excellent for undergraduates. Its coverage of the period is better than any comparable textbook I have seen; even better than Sealey's History of the Greek City States, which is excellent also, and covers earlier history as well -- but this is better.Tiniest complaint: a (very) few typos, and the suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter could have been a LITTLE fuller.

I am not a graduate student in classics, just someone who grew up with an interest in classical history: studied Latin and Greek, did some reading on my own.I found the text written too tersely, and often with rather idiosyncratic phrasing that did not add clarity.Maybe this is a good overall summary for someone who has seen this history before in more detail, but I found that it was too brief, did not draw out useful implications, and did not provide a good narrative. By contrast, Kagan's 1-volume history of the Peloponnesian war (a portion of the period of interest) gave much more insight into human motivations behind the events.And the phrasing was just odd, in places. Wasn't there an editor somewhere?