"One of the greatest challenges for the instructor of Greek social history courses is to distill and present the disparate primary sources to the novice undergraduate student. And so a new edition of The Greek City States: A Source Book is welcome indeed. An eminent scholar of Greek social history, Rhodes has culled and organized the most pertinent sources from Greek literature and various corpora of inscriptions. This second edition of The Greek City States is superior to its predecessor. Each source is now numbered individually and Rhodes' editorial commentary has been made clearly distinct at the beginning of each passage. These changes only serve to highlight Rhodes' excellent choice of texts. Sources are presented in a clear and logical order. Indeed, the presentation is so effective that sources naturally segue into the next and the student can easily read through an entire section on a given topic (e.

g. tyranny, nos. 48-62). The Greek City States remains an excellent resource for the Greek history instructor. Indeed, it is superior in content, form and design to the comparable sourcebooks by Crawford and Whitehead,[[2]] and the volumes by Fornara and Harding in the Translated Documents of Greece & Rome series.[[3]] It is a welcome addition to any class concerning Greek social history of the Archaic and Classical periods. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1/31/2008.