Lynette Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynette Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynette |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reassessing the Peloponnesian War
Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But a great deal of other evidence survives from this best-known of all periods of Athenian history. This book exploits that evidence and our rich knowledge of ancient Greek society to reveal the Peloponnesian War as not just an event but an experien…
King, Divinity, and Law in Ancient Greece
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Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective
The Politics of Power: The Rise and Fall of the Deinomenid Dynasty in Fifth-century Sicily
In the Greek world, power was based on charismatic aretē, excellence. For that reason, rulers had to prove their charismatic qualities in order to rule. However, maintaining charismatic rule over generations was difficult, especially as the successor had to show himself to be more charismatic than his predecessor. In this chapter, we will consider the rule of the Deinomenids in late sixth- and early fifth-century Sicily. We will see how power was…
Political Thinking on Kingship in Democratic Athens
Democratic Athens seems to have been the first place in the Greek world where there developed systematically a positive theorising of kingship. Initially this might seem surprising, since the Athenians had a strong tradition of rejecting one-man-rule. The study of kingship among the political thinkers of the fifth and fourth century has not received much scholarly attention until recent years, and particularly not the striking fact that it was de…
Anti-Athenian Attitudes in Fifth-Century Sicily
Greek Political Thought in Ancient History
Greek historians of the fifth and fourth centuries bce also intended their works to be political commentaries. This paper concentrates on the work of Thucydides, and his interest in fifth-century ideas of constitutionalism. Honing in on the political ‘opposites’, democracy and oligarchy, this paper argues that Thucydides collapses these categories, to show not only that they are unstable, but that, built upon the same political vocabulary, they n…
The community of the Hellenes
A phenomenon that is closely linked to federalism among the Greek city states is the development and definition of the Hellenic community. As regional and local identities were taking shape, also by at least the mid sixth century the peoples of the Greek peninsula had also developed another, supra-identity, to such a degree that they began to give themselves the collective name of the ‘Hellenes’.
Federalism in Greek Antiquity
The world of ancient Greece witnessed some of the most sophisticated and varied experiments with federalism in the pre-modern era. In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, federalism was a creative response to the challenge of establishing regional unity, while at the same time preserving a degree of local autonomy. To reconcile the forces of integration and independence, Greek federal states introduced, for example, the notion of propor…
Apistia: Faithlessness and the Greek polis
Nino Luraghi, editor. The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone: Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Autocracy in recent years has become a subject of much interest, whether in the ancient Near East, medieval Europe, or, as here, in the ancient Greek world, from the Archaic to the end of the Hellenistic periods. In many recent volumes on ancient kingship, one of the essential questions has been about legitimacy: how is it acquired and how is it lost? The question of legitimacy is also one of the main themes of this current collection of essays. …
Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great
Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great
During the final years of the fifth century BC, the Athenians were involved in a long war with Sparta, which they eventually lost in 404. Democracy was replaced by a brutal and violent oligarchy imposed by the Spartans, although within months the democrats had ousted the regime of the so-called ‘Thirty Tyrants’ and democracy was restored. And yet democracy and the democratic ideal had suffered during the long years of war; particularly from among…
Alexander the Great: Divinity and the Rule of Law
This chapter argues that the primary motivation in the deification of Alexander was not deity for its own sake, but deity, at least in part, as a way of reconciling kingship with the rule of law. The first part of the chapter looks at the models for kingship that were current in Greek thought at the end of the fifth century/beginning of the fourth century, before considering the problem that kingship posed for the principle of the rule of law. Fi…
Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly image is created and presented and how the ruler performs his or her function as the source of justice are among the topics addressed in this volume, w…
Greekness
In the second half of the fifth century BCE , Herodotus says that during the Persian wars the Athenians refused to betray the Greeks to the Persians because of their sense of Greekness ( to Hellenikon ), that is, their sense of shared identity based on common blood, language, cult, and way of life (8.144.2).
King's Peace
The King's Peace was an innovative diplomatic strategy, allegedly for creating peace in Greece after nearly fifteen years of war between the Athenians, Boiotians, Argives, and Corinthians on the one hand, and the Spartans on the other.
Panhellenism
“Panhellenism” is a modern abstract noun derived from the Greek panhellenes, “all the Hellenes/Greeks,” one of the collective appellations the Greeks used for describing themselves.
Hellenes
“Hellenes” was one of the names the Greeks used to describe themselves in antiquity (Thuc. 1.3.2–4); it derived from their supposed descent from Hellen, son of Deucalion (see esp. Hall 1997: 34–66).
The Women of Ruling Families in Archaic and Classical Greece
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New Wine in Old Wineskins
A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811-1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal
Journal Article A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811–1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal Get access A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811–1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal, by Richard W. Davis (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford U.P., 2008; pp. 382. $60). L.G. Mitchell L.G. Mitchell University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV…
Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes
Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in Honour of P. J. Rhodes
Thucydides and the Monarch in Democracy
Athenian democracy depended upon political ‘champions’ in order to operate effectively, although the champions themselves were often heavily criticised. At the same time, critics of democracy looked for alternatives in the ‘best men’, or ‘best man’ to rule the state. Thucydides engages with both these issues, and informed by wider political debates and other representations of the ‘democratic monarch’ (especially that of Theseus), analyses and dr…
The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
Tables. Figures. Contributors. References. 1. Introduction P.J. Rhodes 2. The Copenhagen Inventory of Polis and the Lex Hafniensis de Civitate Mogens Herman Hansen 3. The 'Origins of the Greek Polis': where should we be looking? John K. Davies 4. The relations of power in the pre-state and early state politics Walter Donlan 5. Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis Kurt A. Raaflaub 6. Lopping off the heads: tyrants, politi…
Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435–323 BC
Using models from social anthropology as its basis, this book looks at the role of personal relationships in classical Greece and their bearing on interstate politics. It begins with a discussion of what friendship meant in the Greek world of the classical period, and then shows how the models for friendship in the private sphere were mirrored in the public sphere at both domestic and interstate level. As well as relations between Greeks (in part…
Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly image is created and presented and how the ruler performs his or her function as the source of justice are among the topics addressed in this volume, w…
A New Look at the Election of Generals at Athens
The Women of Ruling Families in Archaic and Classical Greece
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Thucydides and the Monarch in Democracy
Athenian democracy depended upon political ‘champions’ in order to operate effectively, although the champions themselves were often heavily criticised. At the same time, critics of democracy looked for alternatives in the ‘best men’, or ‘best man’ to rule the state. Thucydides engages with both these issues, and informed by wider political debates and other representations of the ‘democratic monarch’ (especially that of Theseus), analyses and dr…
Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435–323 BC
Using models from social anthropology as its basis, this book looks at the role of personal relationships in classical Greece and their bearing on interstate politics. It begins with a discussion of what friendship meant in the Greek world of the classical period, and then shows how the models for friendship in the private sphere were mirrored in the public sphere at both domestic and interstate level. As well as relations between Greeks (in part…
A New Look at the Election of Generals at Athens
Euboean Io
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The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
Tables. Figures. Contributors. References. 1. Introduction P.J. Rhodes 2. The Copenhagen Inventory of Polis and the Lex Hafniensis de Civitate Mogens Herman Hansen 3. The 'Origins of the Greek Polis': where should we be looking? John K. Davies 4. The relations of power in the pre-state and early state politics Walter Donlan 5. Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis Kurt A. Raaflaub 6. Lopping off the heads: tyrants, politi…
Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens
Athens had known tyrants in the sixth century, and ostracism was first instituted as a measure to prevent tyranny. This chapter argues that oligarchy was linked to tyranny because in the development of Greek political theory, both at the popular and more reflective and philosophical levels, tyranny informed and even provided the analytical framework for understanding constitutional forms. It shows how popular ideas about the nature of Greek const…
Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens
Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism was a body of narratives that expressed, defined and limited the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Yet Panhellenic narratives also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. Thus one of the chief Panhellenic …
Thucydides and the Monarch in Democracy
Athenian democracy depended upon political ‘champions’ in order to operate effectively, although the champions themselves were often heavily criticised. At the same time, critics of democracy looked for alternatives in the ‘best men’, or ‘best man’ to rule the state. Thucydides engages with both these issues, and informed by wider political debates and other representations of the ‘democratic monarch’ (especially that of Theseus), analyses and dr…
Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes
Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in Honour of P. J. Rhodes
New Wine in Old Wineskins
A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811-1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal
Journal Article A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811–1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal Get access A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811–1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal, by Richard W. Davis (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford U.P., 2008; pp. 382. $60). L.G. Mitchell L.G. Mitchell University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV…
Greekness
In the second half of the fifth century BCE , Herodotus says that during the Persian wars the Athenians refused to betray the Greeks to the Persians because of their sense of Greekness ( to Hellenikon ), that is, their sense of shared identity based on common blood, language, cult, and way of life (8.144.2).
King's Peace
The King's Peace was an innovative diplomatic strategy, allegedly for creating peace in Greece after nearly fifteen years of war between the Athenians, Boiotians, Argives, and Corinthians on the one hand, and the Spartans on the other.
Panhellenism
“Panhellenism” is a modern abstract noun derived from the Greek panhellenes, “all the Hellenes/Greeks,” one of the collective appellations the Greeks used for describing themselves.
Hellenes
“Hellenes” was one of the names the Greeks used to describe themselves in antiquity (Thuc. 1.3.2–4); it derived from their supposed descent from Hellen, son of Deucalion (see esp. Hall 1997: 34–66).
The Women of Ruling Families in Archaic and Classical Greece
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great
Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great
During the final years of the fifth century BC, the Athenians were involved in a long war with Sparta, which they eventually lost in 404. Democracy was replaced by a brutal and violent oligarchy imposed by the Spartans, although within months the democrats had ousted the regime of the so-called ‘Thirty Tyrants’ and democracy was restored. And yet democracy and the democratic ideal had suffered during the long years of war; particularly from among…
Alexander the Great: Divinity and the Rule of Law
This chapter argues that the primary motivation in the deification of Alexander was not deity for its own sake, but deity, at least in part, as a way of reconciling kingship with the rule of law. The first part of the chapter looks at the models for kingship that were current in Greek thought at the end of the fifth century/beginning of the fourth century, before considering the problem that kingship posed for the principle of the rule of law. Fi…
Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly image is created and presented and how the ruler performs his or her function as the source of justice are among the topics addressed in this volume, w…
Apistia: Faithlessness and the Greek polis
Nino Luraghi, editor. The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone: Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Autocracy in recent years has become a subject of much interest, whether in the ancient Near East, medieval Europe, or, as here, in the ancient Greek world, from the Archaic to the end of the Hellenistic periods. In many recent volumes on ancient kingship, one of the essential questions has been about legitimacy: how is it acquired and how is it lost? The question of legitimacy is also one of the main themes of this current collection of essays. …
The community of the Hellenes
A phenomenon that is closely linked to federalism among the Greek city states is the development and definition of the Hellenic community. As regional and local identities were taking shape, also by at least the mid sixth century the peoples of the Greek peninsula had also developed another, supra-identity, to such a degree that they began to give themselves the collective name of the ‘Hellenes’.
Federalism in Greek Antiquity
The world of ancient Greece witnessed some of the most sophisticated and varied experiments with federalism in the pre-modern era. In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, federalism was a creative response to the challenge of establishing regional unity, while at the same time preserving a degree of local autonomy. To reconcile the forces of integration and independence, Greek federal states introduced, for example, the notion of propor…
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