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Professor Lynette Mitchell

Publications

Books

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

'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

Chapters

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,

Alexander the great: the rule of one man, divinity and the rule of law, in Mitchell L,Melville C (eds) Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies in Kings and Kingship of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds,

with C Melville, Introduction, in Mitchell L,Melville C (eds) , Leiden: Brill

Articles

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

Cyrus the great and the obedience of the willing, Centre for Leadership Studies Extended Essays Series, no. 3, 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

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

Xenophon's Cyropaedia: the rule of one man and the rule of law, Polis

Book Reviews

The returns of Odysseus: Colonization and ethnicity, CLASSICAL REV, vol. 50, no. 1, 2000, 99-101

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