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Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
by Lynette Mitchell
ISBN 978-1-914535-33-8, paperback, 288pp, 2024
ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-14-2 ISBN-10: 1-905125-14-3, hardback, 300pp, 2007,
 
This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism defined the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Panhellenism also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. One of the chief Panhellenic narratives, the war against the barbarian, provided the conceptual framework in which Alexander the Great could imagine his Asian campaign.
The author Lynette Mitchell is Professor in Greek History and Politics at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek history of the archaic and classical periods, including Greeks Bearing Gifts (CUP 1997), The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece (Bloomsbury Academic 2013), and Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship (Routledge 2023). She has edited, with P.J. Rhodes, The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece (Routledge 1997); with L. Rubinstein, Greek History and Epigraphy. Essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes (CPW 2009); with C. Melville, Every Inch a King. Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Brill 2013).
 
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of figures
Introduction: Panhellenism and the barbarian
1. Panhellenism and the community of the Hellenes
2. Defining the boundaries of the Hellenic community
3. The symbolic community: utopia and dystopia
4. Cultural contestation
5. Time, space and war against the barbarian
Epilogue
Bibliography
General index
Index locorum