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Chapman, S. D. "Rhodes and the City of London: Another View of Imperialism." Historical Journal 28, no. 3 (September 1985): 647–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00003344.
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There have been any number of biographies of Cecil Rhodes but they are all concerned with his imperialist dreams and dieir realization, paying litde attention to his business career and financial connexions in London. This is surprising in view of J. A. Hobson's identification of finance as ‘the motor-power of Imperialism’ and his reference to the prime role of Rothschilds (Rhodes' financiers) and other Jewish firms. The name of Rothschild is of course mentioned in the biographies, but the merchant bank's contribution is nowhere probed and the student of business history or imperialism is left to draw his own inferences from its characteristically low profile. Perhaps Rothschilds only receive passing mention because their contribution was very modest, an initial priming for a client that needed litde external financial support? Or, following Hobson, conceivably the bankers were the real powers behind Rhodes, ‘the prime determinants of imperial policy’? Recent revelations of some of Rhodes' business deals have not improved his reputation, and it is important to know if his financial backers were in any way responsible for the unsavoury aspects of his business record.
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Rice, E. E. "Grottoes on the acropolis of hellenistic Rhodes." Annual of the British School at Athens 90 (November 1995): 383–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400016269.
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The city of Rhodes, founded in 408/7 BC, took full advantage of the possibilities offered by a previously uninhabited site. In the acropolis area many of the main public structures were laid out in an open, natural landscape, but approaches to the summit from the city led past extensive, interconnecting artificial grottoes and ‘nymphaea’, decorated in flamboyant style. These were aligned with the city's grid-plan, and adjoined streets and stoas formalizing their ornamental aspects. The grottoes offered spatial distraction and visual interest, and served as cool, shady venues for displays of small votives to unknown deities; some apparently gave access to the underground aqueducts. The acropolis, as well as a monumental area, was a focus for private religious activity, seen in these dedications. The ornamental landscaping of the acropolis is to be understood, not in terms of a ‘pleasure park’, but as a fitting adornment for a primarily sacred area.
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PAPPAS, NIKOLAOS V. "City of Rhodes: Residents' Attitudes toward Tourism Impacts and Development." Anatolia 19, no. 1 (July 2008): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2008.9687053.
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Atwill, Janet M. "Memory, Materiality, and Provenance in Dio Chrysostom's “Rhodian Oration”." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 129, no. 3 (May 2014): 456–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2014.129.3.456.
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In the late first century CE, probably under the rule of the Roman Emperor Titus, the Greek Bithynian Sophist Dio Chrysostom traveled to the city of Rhodes to scold its citizens for their treatment of statues. These were not religious statues, nor were they exemplary works of art. They were certainly not the marble statues commissioned by wealthy individuals for private display. In what would be known as his “Rhodian Oration,” Dio interceded on behalf of honorific portrait statues, erected by the city to honor those who had provided public gifts or services. This exchange of gift and honor is now referred to as euergetism (good works) or benefactions—a system of finance and governance whereby individuals subsidized public functions (such as religious festivals) and the construction of public facilities (such as the baths) or provided other gifts and services to the city. According to Dio, Rhodes was reusing honorific portrait statues—authorizing artisans to chisel out the names of those previously honored and reinscribe the statues' bases with the names of new honorees. As Dio argues, the city was, effectively, plundering its own statues.
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Backscheider, Paula R. "Behind City Walls: Restoration Actors in the Drapers' Company." Theatre Survey 45, no. 1 (May 2004): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404000067.
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In 1934, Louis B. Wright wrote, “All the world knows since the publication of studies by Professors Graves, Rollins, and Hotson that . . . [the drama's] light never went out completely.” Yet in a 2001 reference book, a contributor writes, “After an eighteen year hiatus. . . .” No wonder that Dale Randall could legitimately write in 1995, “We are asked to believe that little or nothing happened in English drama for the next eighteen years” beginning in 1642. His Winter Fruit is an important survey of dramatic activity during the Interregnum, and scholars continue to document the varieties of theatrical activities in the period. My essay is a modest contribution to the accumulation of details about a lingering, integral puzzle: how two London companies with experienced actors and new stars came into existence so quickly in 1660. It also shows that the Old City of London was not as inhospitable to drama as it is often portrayed. The piece of this puzzle that I can supply is the picture of John Rhodes and the Drapers' Company. Of Rhodes, John Downes wrote that in the winter of 1659–60 he “fitted up a House then for Acting call'd the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane, and in a short time Compleated his Company.” Downes supplies a list of plays acted there beginning in February and comments that one of these new actors, Thomas Betterton, then “but 22 Years Old, was highly Applauded for his Acting . . . ; his Voice being then as Audibly strong, full and Articulate, as in the Prime of his Acting.”
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Jones, C. P. "The Rhodian Oration Ascribed to Aelius Aristides." Classical Quarterly 40, no. 2 (December 1990): 514–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800043081.
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Among the works of Aelius Aristides is preserved one entitled the Rhodian ('Pοδιακ⋯ς, sc. λ⋯γος, no. 25) It concerns an earthquake which has recently struck the city of Rhodes, and since Keil's edition of 1898 it has usually been considered spurious.The work reproduces a true speech, not something like an open letter: the clearest sign is when the author uses the deictic pronoun τοετ⋯, ‘this here’, of the place in which he is speaking (53). One question is best discussed at the outset, since later it will prove vital to the question of authenticity: does the speaker claim to have been in Rhodes at the moment of the earthquake? Keil assumed without argument that he does. He had clearly visited the city before the disaster as well as after it (4, 32), but despite the vividness of his descriptions he nowhere says that he was present, and this reticence surely implies that he was not; and if he had been it is odd that he should talk of ‘the actual climax of the thing that befell you’ (τ⋯ν ⋯κμ⋯ν αὐτ⋯ν το comflex περιστ⋯ντος πρ⋯γματος, 19), using the second person plural. I infer that the speaker had not been present, but gave the speech several months after the event (εἰςμ⋯νας, 28); in the last part of this paper I will argue that he is Aristides, stopping at Rhodes on his wayback from Egypt to Smyrna in or about 142.
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Karatzetzou, Anna, Caterina Negulescu, Maria Manakou, Benjamin François, Darius M. Seyedi, Dimitris Pitilakis, and Kyriazis Pitilakis. "Ambient vibration measurements on monuments in the Medieval City of Rhodes, Greece." Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 13, no. 1 (July 12, 2014): 331–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-014-9649-2.
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Conrad, Lawrence I. "The Arabs and the Colossus." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 6, no. 2 (July 1996): 165–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186300007173.
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In 305 B.C. Demetrius I Poliorcetes of Macedonia (r. 321–283), pursuing his ambition of reuniting the empire of Alexander, marched against the island city of Rhodes, which since the partition of 323 had been able to reassert its independence and pursue its own foreign policies. The ensuing siege, one of the most famous military campaigns of Hellenistic times, was a failure, and in 304 Demetrius was obliged to admit defeat and withdraw, leaving behind his siege train and large amounts of other military stores. The jubilant Rhodians gathered up this equipment and sold it for 300 talents, which, in gratitude for their deliverance, they used to commission a spectacular monument to the sun god Helios, the focus of a lively cult at Rhodes. The sculptor selected for the task was Chares, an artist from the town of Lindos (about 40 kilometres south of the capital) and a student of the renowned Lyssipus, who had recently erected a great bronze statue of Zeus at Tarentum in Italy.
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Ebbinghaus, Susanne. "Protector of the city, or the art of storage in early Greece." Journal of Hellenic Studies 125 (November 2005): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075426900007102.
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AbstractIn the Late Geometric and Orientalizing periods, storage vessels with elaborate relief decoration were produced in several Aegean islands, most notably the northern Cyclades, Crete and Rhodes. This article interprets the amphora-shaped relief pithos as a function of prevailing social, economic and living conditions. It is argued that rather than being inspired by funerary or votive uses, the relief pithoi of the Tenian-Boeotian group are the material expression of the vital importance of food storage, which not only ensured subsistence but was an essential prerequisite for social differentiation. Relief pithoi were a form of conspicuous storage. Against this background, the unique iconography of the Tenian-Boeotian pithoi is revisited and the enigmatic fallen warrior on the Mykonos Pithos identified as a possible role model for seventh-century aristocrats.
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Kampouropoulou, Maria. "Teaching Arts Using the Project Method. Students’ Views Towards the Subject of Arts." Journal of Education and Training 2, no. 2 (March 30, 2015): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jet.v2i2.7352.
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<p class="2M-body">The paper refers to the use of project method by students who were attending the first, second and third grade of High School in Greece. We designed and realized a research in order to examine the improvement of students’ attitudes and views towards the subject of Arts using the project method. The subject of the project in the first grade of High School was “the traditional village of Lindos”, the subject of the project in the second grade was “the medieval city of Rhodes” and the subject of the project in the third grade was "the acropolis of Filerimos". All the areas under study were in Rhodes, Greece. Questionnaires were given to the students before and after the teaching interventions which was realized during the first quarter of the school year 2014-2015. The results showed that the use of project method vindicated the goals of the research and improved significantly the students' views and attitudes towards the subject of Arts.</p>
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Rhodes (City)"
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Marre, Sébastien. "Phylétika : divisions et subdivisions civiques en Ionie, en Carie, à Rhodes et dans les îles proches du continent de la mort d'Alexandre le Grand à l'arrivée des Romains." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30029/document.
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La recherche doit d’abord étudier les divisions et subdivisions civiques en Ionie, en Carie, à Rhodes et dans les îles proches du continent à l’époque hellénistique et montrer les évolutions entre la période antérieure à Alexandre et les débuts de la domination romaine. Dans le monde grec, les citoyens étaient répartis en grands groupes héréditaires : les tribus (phylai) et les phratries (phratriai). Ces institutions représentaient le fondement de l’organisation politique. La recherche doit montrer ensuite si la parenté joue encore un rôle dans la répartition des divisions et subdivisions civiques dans les cités d’Asie Mineure de l’époque hellénistique puisque le principe d’affiliation héréditaire semble avoir été la règle, l’affiliation en fonction de la résidence étant semble-t-il un phénomène assez tardif. Les membres de ces tribus considèrent qu’ils descendent d’un ancêtre commun, le plus souvent mythique. Leurs subdivisions sont souvent des phratries qui sont des associations qui regroupent plusieurs familles considérées par ses membres comme apparentées. Il s’agit enfin de montrer les ressemblances et les différences en ce qui concerne les divisions et les subdivisions civiques dans les différentes cités d’Asie Mineure occidentale à l’époque hellénistique. On peut étudier ainsi comment fonctionne le statut de citoyenneté en fonction de l’appartenance aux corps civiques. On peut également se demander comment se fait l’exercice des droits de citoyen, probablement différent d’une cité à l’autre et qui doit même évoluer au cours de la période considérée. Cette étude doit faire la part entre ce qui relève du rôle des divisions et subdivisions civiques dans le fonctionnement des cités et ce qui concerne uniquement l’organisation interne de ces institutions en tant que structures politiquesResearch has first to study civil divisions and subdivisions in Western Asian Minor cities at Hellenistic times and then show the changes between the pre-Alexander time and the birth of Roman domination. In the Greek world, citizens were divided into large groups: the tribes (phylai) and the phratries (phratriai). Those institutions were the basis of political organization. Then research has to show if kinship plays any role in the repartition of civil divisions and subdivisions in Western Asian Minor cities at Hellenistic times, since the principle of hereditary kinship seems to have been the norm; residential affiliation being, so it seems, a late phenomenon. Those tribe members consider they are descended from a common ancestor, most often a mythic character. Their subdivisions are often phratries which are associations that gather together several Families whose members consider they are kins. Last we have to show the similitudes and differences as to civil divisions and subdivisions in the different Western Asian Minor cities at Hellenistic Times. Thus we can study how citizenship status works in accordance to civil bodies. We may also wonder how citizens could exercise their rights, rights which were probably different from one city to the other and that surely developed in the said period. This study has to make allowances for what is from the role of civil divisions and subdivisions in the way cities are run and for what only concerns the inner organization of those institutions in matters of political structures
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Badoud, Nathan. "La cité de Rhodes : de la chronologie à l'histoire." Bordeaux 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR30084.
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La thèse se compose de deux parties distinctes, respectivement consacrées à la chronologie des inscriptions rhodiennes et à la lex Rhodia de iactu (Digeste 14. 2). 1. Quelque 4800 inscriptions rhodiennes ont été publiées à ce jour. Mise au point dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, et très largement admise depuis, leur chronologie méritait d’être repensée. Il s’est agi d’une part de montrer comment la cité de Rhodes et les communautés qui la composaient – Ialysos, Camiros et Lindos – ont acculturé le temps au travers d’institutions comme le calendrier ou les cycles tribaux. Il s’est agi d’autre part de dater deux types de documents : les catalogues de magistrats, qui constituent des séries de noms opposés diachroniquement, et diverses listes constituant des ensembles de noms associés synchroniquement. Ancrés dans le temps, ces documents fournissent une échelle de datation à laquelle les indices paléographiques, linguistiques et prosopographiques permettent de rattacher plusieurs centaines d’autres inscriptions, sans compter les monnaies ni surtout les timbres amphoriques. 2. La lex Rhodia de iactu a été soumise à une étude philologique, juridique et historique. Après avoir démontré l’authenticité des dix extraits de la jurisprudence classique qui composent la lex, et rendu compte de leur disposition, on se base sur les huit premiers d’entre eux pour reconstituer la doctrine romaine de l’avarie commune, dont on établit l’ancienneté et les origines grecques. L’analyse du neuvième fragment permet non seulement d’identifier plusieurs clauses du droit maritime rhodien, mais aussi d’entrevoir comment ce dernier a pu être intégré dans le droit romainLa thèse se compose de deux parties distinctes, respectivement consacrées à la chronologie des inscriptions rhodiennes et à la lex Rhodia de iactu (Digeste 14. 2). 1. Quelque 4800 inscriptions rhodiennes ont été publiées à ce jour. Mise au point dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, et très largement admise depuis, leur chronologie méritait d’être repensée. Il s’est agi d’une part de montrer comment la cité de Rhodes et les communautés qui la composaient – Ialysos, Camiros et Lindos – ont acculturé le temps au travers d’institutions comme le calendrier ou les cycles tribaux. Il s’est agi d’autre part de dater deux types de documents : les catalogues de magistrats, qui constituent des séries de noms opposés diachroniquement, et diverses listes constituant des ensembles de noms associés synchroniquement. Ancrés dans le temps, ces documents fournissent une échelle de datation à laquelle les indices paléographiques, linguistiques et prosopographiques permettent de rattacher plusieurs centaines d’autres inscriptions, sans compter les monnaies ni surtout les timbres amphoriques. 2. La lex Rhodia de iactu a été soumise à une étude philologique, juridique et historique. Après avoir démontré l’authenticité des dix extraits de la jurisprudence classique qui composent la lex, et rendu compte de leur disposition, on se base sur les huit premiers d’entre eux pour reconstituer la doctrine romaine de l’avarie commune, dont on établit l’ancienneté et les origines grecques. L’analyse du neuvième fragment permet non seulement d’identifier plusieurs clauses du droit maritime rhodien, mais aussi d’entrevoir comment ce dernier a pu être intégré dans le droit romain
The dissertation consists of two distinct parts. One tackles the chronology of Rhodian inscriptions ; the other focuses on the lex Rhodia de iactu (Digest 14. 2). 1. Some 4800 Rhodian inscriptions have been published so far. Their chronology, which had been built in the first half of the XXth century and is widely accepted today, deserved to be thought through again. On the one hand, it was necessary to explain how the city of Rhodes and the communities which make it up – Ialysos, Kamiros, Lindos – have acculturated the time through various social institutions such as the calendar and the tribal-cycles. On the other hand, two sorts of documents had to be dated : the catalogues of the magistrates which form series of diachronically opposed names, and numerous lists of synchronically associated names. Located on the axis of time, these documents form a scale to which several hundreds of other inscriptions, coins and amphora stamps may be related, through palaeographic, linguistic and prosopographic clues. 2. In this part, I study philologically, juridically, and historically the lex Rhodia de iactu. I prove the authenticity of the ten extracts of the classical jurisprudence which form the lex and I explain their arrangement. The first eight extracts permit to establish the Roman doctrine of general average, the antiquity and Greek roots of which are demonstrated. The study of the ninth extract allows us to identify several clauses of Rhodian maritime law and to understand how it could be integrated in the Roman law
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Feitel, Jennifer Lynn. "Sexual harassment : a comparison of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York City, and Rhode Island department of corrections and the private sector /." 2009. http://149.152.10.1/record=b3071811~S16.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Kathleen Bantley. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Criminal Justice." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-72). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.
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Duri, Fidelis Peter Thomas. "Antecedents and adaptations in the borderlands: a social history of informal socio-economic activities across the Rhodesia-Mozambique border with particular reference to the city of Umtali, 1900-1974." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11995.
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Ph.D. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2012This work explores the informal pursuits for a livelihood across the border separating the Rhodesian town of Umtali and the Portuguese colony of Mozambique by Africans marginalised by colonial rule during the period 1900-1974. Some of these activities pre-dated the advent of European colonisation while others were improvised during the colonial period. This study focuses on five forms of informal cross-border activities, namely: socio-cultural interactions, irregular labour mobility and practices, the theft of property in Umtali and its disposal in Mozambique, illicit alcohol brewing and commerce, and dagga trafficking. Without overlooking the role of other social networks based on gender, class and generation, it is the central contention of this thesis that family and kinship affiliations and dynamics dating back to the pre-colonial period and those that prevailed, and at times forged after the advent of colonisation, played a significant role in the development of informal cross-border pursuits for a livelihood by marginalised Africans. These activities in turn, together with other prevailing socio-economic dynamics, sometimes enhanced or destabilised family and kinship solidarity. Without necessarily deconstructing other analytical tools such as gender, class and generation, this thesis seeks to underline the importance of family and kinship dynamics as a tool of analysis in the study of informal cross-border activities.
Books on the topic "Rhodes (City)"
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Marr, Dennis F. M. The Rhodes/Rosenberg family of New York City. Troy, NY: D. Marr, 2007.
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Kollias, Elias. The Knights of Rhodes: The palace and the city. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1991.
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Kollias, Ēlias. The Knights of Rhodes: The Palace and the city. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1991.
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Murder of a beauty shop queen: A Dan Rhodes mystery. New York, USA: Minotaur Books, 2012.
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Kollias, Elias. The city of Rhodes and the palace of the Grand Master: From the early Christian period to the conquestby the Turks (1522). Athens: Ministry of Culture. Archaeological Receipts Fund, 1988.
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D'Amato, Donald A. Warwick, Rhode Island: Welcome to our city. [Rhode Island]: D.A. D'Amato, 2002.
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Andrews, Hope Greene. Hopkinton City: "the Williamsburg of Hopkinton, Rhode Island". Edited by Andrews Patty. Hopkinton, R.I: H.G. Andrews, 1985.
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1944-, Gannon Tom, ed. Newport, Rhode Island: The city by the sea. 2nd ed. Woodstock, Vt: Countryman Press, 1992.
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Cattari, S., A. Karatzetzou, S. Degli Abbati, D. Pitilakis, C. Negulescu, and K. Gkoktsi. "Seismic Performance Based Assessment of the Arsenal de Milly of the Medieval City of Rhodes." In Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, 365–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16130-3_15.
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Moropoulou, Antonia, Nikolaos Moropoulos, George Andriotakis, and Dimitrios Giannakopoulos. "A Programme for Sustainable Preservation of the Medieval City of Rhodes in the Circular Economy Based on the Renovation and Reuse of Listed Buildings." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 299–321. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12960-6_20.
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Fant, Clyde E., and Mitchell G. Reddish. "Rhodes." In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195139174.003.0021.
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Nearly two million visitors a year come to the historic island of Rhodes to enjoy its sun, beaches, and famous medieval city. Rhodes is the largest island of the Dodecanese, or Twelve Islands, although there are actually two hundred small islands that compose the group. Historically it was the home of the world-renowned Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is also mentioned in the Bible as one of the ports visited by the boat carrying the Apostle Paul to Jerusalem on his return from his third, and last, missionary journey. The island of Rhodes lies much closer to Turkey than to Greece, but it can be easily reached by frequent flights from Athens or by ferry from Piraeus (14 hours), the port of Athens; from Kusadasi through Samos (6 hours); or from Bodrum, Marmaris, or Fethiye (between 1½ and 2 hours). Flights are also available from Thessaloniki and Crete, and in summer from Santorini and Mykonos as well. Because of its favorable location close to the shoreline of Asia Minor and between Greece and Israel, Rhodes was favored for development in antiquity. Both its eastern and western ports were frequented by traders and merchants, and numerous ancient writers mention it as a place of both economic and cultural achievement. In the 4th century B.C.E. Rhodes even surpassed Athens as a center for trade and commerce. The island also became renowned for its school of rhetoric, founded in 324 B.C.E., at which such distinguished Romans as Cicero, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Tiberius studied. Famous citizens of Rhodes included the poet Apollonios and the sculptors Pythocretes (who created the famed Nike of Samothrace, which was dedicated by the citizens of Rhodes to commemorate their victory over Antiochus III in 190 B.C.E.) and Chares of Lindos (sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes). The world-famous Laocoön, a sculpture that depicts the priest of Apollo and his children in the grip of two great snakes, was produced by three sculptors from Rhodes, Agesander, Athinodoros, and Polydoros.
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Wheatley, Pat, and Charlotte Dunn. "The Great Siege of Rhodes." In Demetrius the Besieger, 179–202. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836049.003.0014.
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In 305 BC the newly-minted King Demetrius began his most famous exploit, his year-long siege of Rhodes. This chapter looks closely at a number of aspects of this military undertaking, including Demetrius’ strategies in siege warfare. Innovative siege engines, both naval and land-based, were deployed on an absolutely unprecedented scale, including the building of the gigantic helepolis, or ‘City-Taker’. The protagonists fought each other to a standstill, and eventually peace was negotiated by external parties. It was at this time that Demetrius gained his famous nickname, Poliorcetes, ‘Besieger of Cities’. The historiography, strategies, and outcomes of this siege are discussed in detail throughout this chapter.
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Crouch, Dora P. "Western Grego-Roman Cities." In Geology and Settlement. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195083248.003.0009.
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The polity of Rhodes, with Cretan assistance, founded Gela on the south coast of Sicily in 688 B.C.E. (Herodotus, VII, 153) and assisted in the foundation of Akragas/ Agrigento farther northwest on the same coast in 580 B.C.E. Akragas’s foundation was part of the second wave of Greek city building in Sicily, about 150 years after the founding of Syracuse and other east coast settlements. Much of the Rhodian situation was replicated in the new cities. Settlers found familiar terrain like Gela, on a steep ridge facing the sea, surrounded by generous plains. At Gela, the acropolis at the east end is near the River Gelas, which waters the plains. Agrigento is bracketed by two rivers with plains to the south, and its lower ridge is visually equivalent to the site of Gela. An irrigation system of the Greek period like that known a little to the east at Camarina could have facilitated growing food in the alluvial soil between the two rivers, to the south of the temple ridge (Di Vita 1996: 294). If we notice geological similarities and extrapolate too freely from them to architectural similarities, we may introduce chronological fuzziness to our study. The island-wide Rhodian tradition of dealing with water resources was carried to Sicily by the colonists along with other aspects of the culture. Exchange of ideas continued during the centuries between the founding of Akragas and the synoecism of Rhodes City centuries later. For instance, the grottoes of the acropolis of the city of Rhodes are “cut into the bioclastic limestones of the Rhodes formation, with, in some cases, the floor cut down into clayey and marly units that correspond to a line of seepage” (E. Rice, personal communication). At Akragas as at Rhodes, the builders cut down through the stone to the impermeable clay and marl units, to tap the line of seepage. With similar geology, it is not surprising that many elements of the water system of the two places were similar, developed indepen dently from the old tradition. New concepts of water management were carried from place to place by expert builders, from the seventh through the fifth century B.C.E.
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"‘A partial account of the statues of the city and its high and very great columns’: Constantine’s Account of Constantinople." In Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles, 159–80. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315573526-7.
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Heckel, Waldemar. "First Clash in Asia Minor." In In the Path of Conquest, 41–57. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190076689.003.0004.
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Persian Asia Minor had experienced upheavals since the late stages of the Peloponnesian War. When the Spartans emerged victorious from that contest, with the financial help of the Persian king, they soon set out on a program of liberation. But their leadership was corrupt and their methods of controlling the Greek city-states oppressive—Spartan garrisons were imposed under a commander called a harmost, and boards of ten (dekarchies) ruled the cities. Persia successfully removed the Spartan menace, but the Achaemenids were themselves soon threatened by an uprising known as the Great Satraps’ Revolt. Some of the rebels sought refuge at the court of Philip II of Macedon, who later sent an expeditionary force to Asia Minor in the spring of 336. Although this force of 10,000 accomplished little, it was followed in 334 by a full-scale invasion by Alexander the Great, who defeated the armies of a satrapal coalition at the River Granicus. Although Memnon of Rhodes emerged as the leading defender of Persian interests in the West, many of the empire’s leading commanders fell on the battlefield or soon afterward. It was an ill omen for the future of Achaemenid Asia Minor.
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Fant, Clyde E., and Mitchell G. Reddish. "Patara." In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195139174.003.0040.
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In ancient times Patara possessed one of the best harbors on the Lycian coast. Modern visitors will be forced to use their imaginations to visualize the port of Patara, since the harbor eventually fell victim to the effects of silting from the Xanthos River. Today a beach and sand dunes cover the mouth of the ancient harbor, while the inner part of the harbor is now a marsh. Patara served as the port city for Xanthos, the leading city of the region of Lycia, which was located about 6 miles up the Xanthos River. Patara is located on the southwestern shore of Turkey, due east from the island of Rhodes. It is situated about halfway between Fethiye and Kale, near the present-day village of Gelemiş, about 3.5 miles south of the modern road (highway 400) that runs along Turkey’s Mediterranean shore. Patara is approximately 6 miles east of the mouth of the Xanthos River. A stream from the Xanthos flowed into the sea at Patara and deposited the river’s silt there. Important in the past because of its harbor, the area around Patara is known today for its 11 miles of excellent, sandy beaches. Supposedly named after Patarus, a son of Apollo, the city was famous in antiquity for its Temple of Apollo (no archaeological evidence of the temple has yet been found) and the oracle of Apollo. According to ancient tradition, Apollo liked to spend the winter at Patara and thus the oracle of Apollo was operative only during the winter months. Pottery finds at Patara provide evidence for a settlement here as early as the 6th century B.C.E. In 334–333 B.C.E. Patara, along with several other Lycian cities, surrendered to Alexander the Great. During the subsequent Hellenistic period, the city came first under the control of the Ptolemies and then the Seleucids. Ptolemy II Philadelphus (r. 282–246 B.C.E.) expanded the city and renamed it Arsinoe in honor of his wife, but the new name never took hold. In 196 B.C.E., the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III of Syria captured several Lycian cities, including Patara.
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Crouch, Dora P. "Greek Settlements and Karst Phenomena: Corinth and Syracuse." In Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072808.003.0017.
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To get a sense of the relationship between karst geology and Greek settlement, we will look at examples from the Greek mainland, the islands of the Aegean, and Sicily. There is no attempt here to be comprehensive, as the necessary field work has not been done to make that possible, but rather these examples are selected to suggest the way that karst water potential played an important role in site selection and development. The major examples selected are Athens and Corinth for mainland Greece, Rhodes for the Aegean Islands, Assos and Priene for Ionia, and Syracuse and Akragas for Sicily. Other places will be cited briefly if the details from those sites are particularly illuminating. Karst phenomena, as we have seen, are found throughout the Greek world. Since Athens is perhaps the best documented Greek city, and has in addition a phenomenal karst system as its monumental focus, it receives here a section of its own, Chapter 18, The Well-Watered Acropolis. In Chapter 11, Planning Water Management, we discuss Corinth’s water system in comparison with that of her daughter city Syracuse. Here, however, we will consider the aspects of water at Corinth that derive from the karst geology of the area. This city is an excellent example of the adaptation of urban requirements to karst terrane, the siting of an ancient Greek city to take advantage of this natural resource. Ancient Corinth was built on gradually sloping terraces below the isolated protuberance of Acrocorinth, which acts as a reservoir, with the flow of waters through it resulting in springs (Fig. 8.1). That karst waters are to be found in perched nappes even at high altitudes accounts for the spring of Upper Peirene not far below the summit of Acrocorinth, as well as the two fountains half-way down the road from its citadel, and the fountain called Hadji Mustapha, at the immediate foot of the citadel (as reported by the late seventeenth century traveler, E. Celebi, cited in Mackay, 1967, 193–95.) The aquifers also supply the aqueduct (probably ancient) from Penteskouphia southwest of Acrocorinth.
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Crouch, Dora P. "Urban Patterns in the Greek Period: Athens, Paestum, Morgantina, Miletus/Priene, and Pergamon as Formal Types." In Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072808.003.0013.
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In order to assess the impact of the delivery and drainage of water on the urban pattern in the ancient Greek world, it is necessary to have clear ideas of what forms their cities took. Thus a brief discussion of urban patterns will be useful. Traditional descriptions of ancient Greek cities characterize them by typical street patterns, usually two major types: the Hippodamean grid of Miletus of the fifth century, and the terraces like the blades of a fan found at Pergamon of the late third and second centuries, called “scenographic urbanism.” Yet a more careful examination of the evidence suggests that for different centuries B.C., there are many more urban types than two. Examples standing for both the repertory of physical patterns and the changes in those patterns over time that we may cite are: 1. 7th century B.C.—Akragas (frontispiece): irregular hill-top site of the archaic period 2. 6th century—Paestum (Fig. 5.IB): “bar and stripes” 3. 5th century—Athens (Fig. 5.1A): organic, focused on central acropolis and agora, similar to Akragas pattern 4. 5th century—Morgantina (Fig. 5.1C): typical West Greek pattern of two flat hills with residential quarters grid platted and lower agora between them 5. 4th and 3rd centuries—Priene (Fig. 51.D): based on prototype grid at Miletus (early 5th century—Fig. 22.4) and refinement of grid as used at Rhodes (mid to late 5th century—Fig. 8.3), an adaption of Hippodamean regularity to a small plateau 6. 3rd and 2nd centuries—Pergamon (Fig. 5.1E): scenographic urbanism, with wedge-shaped terraces It is difficult to classify urban plans solely by pattern or by century. This is because the changes did not go together in any simple fashion. Inspection of the street patterns of ancient Greek cities, and the relation of those patterns to the sites, allows them to be classified into five basic types, which for easy remembrance I name after representative cities of each type: 1. Athens-type. A general rule for cities of a[n ancient] culture states that “the capital city is unlike the others in form.” Athens, a seemingly formless, organic city, is quite unlike the well-regulated cities (many of them colonies) of the other types.
Conference papers on the topic "Rhodes (City)"
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Cattari, S., A. Karatzetzou, S. Degli Abbati, K. Gkoktsi, D. Pitilakis, and C. Negulescu. "PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT OF THE ARSENAL DE MILLY OF THE MEDIEVAL CITY OF RHODES." In 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Athens: Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research School of Civil Engineering National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Greece, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7712/120113.4625.c1581.
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Ory, Vincent. "“Locking up the Strait in the fifteenth century’s Ottoman Mediterranean”: The Bosporus’ sea forts of Mehmet II (1452)." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Valencia: Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11333.
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In the fifteenth century, the Mediterranean world was in turmoil. A new sultan, Mehmet II, had just inherited a vast empire stretching over two continents in the centre of which the ruins of the Byzantine Empire survived through the city of Constantinople. In order to seal his accession, he therefore undertook important preparations to conquer the “City guarded by God”. Mehmet then ordered the construction, within 4 months, of an imposing fortress nicknamed Boǧazkesen (the throat cutter). This coup de force is a testimony to the incredible military and economic power of this growing empire that masters a new war technology: artillery. The Ottomans, who were still novices in this field, had therefore had to adapt their fortifications to the use of firearms. Using local and foreign architects and engineers, the Ottoman fortifications built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries bear witness to an architectural experimentation that seems to testify, like the work carried out in Rhodes by Pierre d’Aubusson or in Methoni by the Venetians, to a real research in terms of offensive and defensive effectiveness. In this context, the fortifications of Rumeli Hisarı and Anadolu Hisarı, built on either side of the narrowest point of the Bosporus in 1451-1452, are characterized by the presence of large coastal batteries that operate together. They were to block access to Constantinople by the Black Sea, combining sinking and dismasting fire.