Rosalind Thomas

Rosalind Thomas is an ancient historian at Balliol College, Oxford.

After Chaironeia

Rosalind Thomas, 24 September 2026

The ancientGreek city-state, or polis, gave rise to the first systematic attempts at political thought. Similar city-states existed elsewhere, but it was the polis of the ancient Greek world that inspired Plato and Aristotle’s theories about the ideal state. Poleis preceded the classical Greek period of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, and in either vigorous or diminished form...

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