Paul A. Rahe

Holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College. He majored in History, the Arts and Letters at Yale University; read Litterae Humaniores at Oxford University’s Wadham College on a Rhodes Scholarship; and did his Ph.D. in ancient Greek history at Yale under the direction of Donald Kagan.

Posts and Dispatches from Paul A. Rahe:

• The Spartan Regime
  Past Fellow Paul A. Rahe has written an authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy...

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• Book review: Historian Paul Rahe Recounts Epic Spartan Tales and the Defeat of the Mighty Persian Empire
  The National- Past Fellow Paul Rahe’s has recently released a new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta. In his review of The Grand Strategy, Steve Donoghue writes that the book “is intensely well-researched and well-balanced” and that it “tells the old stories in a new light.” The book is the first in what will be a trilogy...

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• Paul A. Rahe Newsletters
  Fellowship Years: 1984-1986 Fellowship Topic: Contemporary culture social development and politics of the Eastern Mediterranean. Fellowship Area: Turkey, Greece Istanbul Diary Antiquities A Relic Delicate Questions Kibris–First Impressions Republicanism and Religion–I Republicanism and Religion–II Republicanism and Religion–III Elections in Northern Cyprus Republicanism and Religion–IV Trkiyeler Graeculi Disinformation Kupros–First Impressions Political Football The Greek Cypriot Election–I The Greek Cypriot...

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