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community. Following a private cremation a memorial service will be held in Durham
Cathedral on Tuesday 23rd November at 2pm. For those unable to attend, the memorial service will be recorded and made accessible on YouTube via the Durham Cathedral site. Donations in his memory may be made to the Michael James Music Trust, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies or the British Red Cross and can be given after the service or sent care of Stuart Wright Funeral Directors, 38 Sunderland Road, Durham, DH1 2LG.
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RHODES Peter John, emeritus professor of ancient history at Durham
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for the humanities and the social sciences. In 2005, he was made a
Foreign Member of the
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Athenian Council (or
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Leonora Rhodes (
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Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern
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of Ancient History in 1983. He retired in 2005, becoming
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