The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece

Author:   Lynette Mitchell (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781472505965


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lynette Mitchell (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781472505965


ISBN 10:   1472505964
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter One: Basileia and tyrannis: exploding myth Chapter Two: Arete and the right to rule Chapter Three: Ruling Families Chapter Four: Rulers in the polis Chapter Five: Epilogue: Athens, ruling and arete Bibliography Index

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An impressive and groundbreaking treatment of the topic: Lynette Mitchell has undertaken a bold attempt to treat much-studied issues from a fresh perspective -- Dr. Sian Lewis, University Of St. Andrews In this crisply written and pleasingly accessible study, Professor Lynette Mitchell has caught a rich haul of personal and charismatic rulers of Greek states and peoples from Archaic to Hellenistic times. She detects a common ideological basis for their diverse regimes in claims to heroic heritage and values, and argues persuasively that monarchical but not absolutist modes of rule remained central to Greek political experience from Homer's Agamemnon to Aristotle's Alexander and beyond. -- Paul Cartledge Is The A.G. Leventis Professor Of Greek Culture, Cambridge University


An impressive and groundbreaking treatment of the topic: Lynette Mitchell has undertaken a bold attempt to treat much-studied issues from a fresh perspective -- Dr. Sian Lewis, University Of St. Andrews


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Lynette Mitchell is Professor of Greek History and Politics at the University of Exeter, UK. Her books include Greeks Bearing Gifts (1997) and Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007).

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