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Professor Lynette Mitchell

Publications

Books

The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

with C Melville, Every Inch a King. Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Leiden, Brill, 2013.

with L Rubinstein, Greek History and Epigraphy. Essays in honour of PJ Rhodes, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2009.

Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece, Classical Press of Wales, 2007.

Greeks Bearing Gifts: the public use of private relationships 435-323 BC, Cambridge, 1997.

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, London, Routledge, 1997.

Articles

The Women of ruling Families in Archaic and Classical Greece, Classical Quarterly, 2012, 1-21

Cyrus the great and the obedience of the willing, Centre for Leadership Studies Extended Essays Series, no. 3, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, 2009, 8-22

Freedom and the rule of law, Freedom and Coercion, 2008

Thucydides and the monarch in democracy, Polis, no. 25, 2008, 1-30

Greeks, barbarians & Aeschylus Suppliants, Greece and Rome, vol. 53, no. 2, 2006, 205-223

Euboean Io, The Classical Quarterly, vol. 51, no. 2, 2001, 339-352

'A new look At the election of generals at Athens', Klio, 2000, 344-360

'Philia, eunoia and Greek interstate relations', Antichthon, vol. 31, 1997, 344-360

‘New for old: Friendship networks in Athenian politics’, Greece & Rome, vol. 43, 1996, 11-30

Chapters

with C Melville, Introduction, in Mitchell L, Melville C (eds) , Leiden: Brill, 2013, 1-21

Alexander the Great: Divinity and the Rule of Law, in Mitchell L, Melville C (eds) Every Inch a King. Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Leiden: Brill, 2013, 91-107

Herodotus' Cyrus and political freedom, in Historiography and Iran in Comparative Perspective, IB Tauris, 2011

with L Rubinstein, Introduction, in Mitchell L, Rubinstein L (eds) Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2009

The rules of the game: three studies in friendship, equality and politics, in Mitchell L, Rubinstein L (eds) Greek History and Epigraphy. Essays in honour of PJ Rhodes, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2009, 1-32

Born to rule? The Argead royal succession, in Heckel W, Wheatley P, Tritle L (eds) Alexander’s Empire: Formulation to decay, Claremont: Regina, 2007, 61-74

'Greek government', in Kinzl KH (eds) A Companion to the Classical Greek World, Blackwell, 2006

Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens, in Lewis S (eds) Ancient Tyranny, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 178-187

New wine in old wineskins: Solon, arete, and the agathos’, in Mitchell LG, Rhodes PJ (eds) The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, London: Routledge, 1997, 137-147

with D Edelman, The Book of Chronicles and Greek local historians, in Edelman D (eds) Authority in the Hebrew Bible,

Em busca da antiguidade, in Beltrao de Rosa C, Bastos Marques J, Baron Tacla A, Musco Mendes N (eds) A busca do antigo, Rio de Janeiro: , 133-59

Reviews

Ethnic identity and the community of the Hellenes: review of J. Hall, 2002, Hellenicity: Between ethnicity and culture, Chicago, Ancient West & East, vol. 4, 2005, 409-420