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 narratives, the war against the barbarian, provided the conceptual framework in which Alexander the Great could imagine his Asian campaign.
- ISBN10 1905125143
- ISBN13 9781905125142
- Publish Date 22 November 2007
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 22 June 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Classical Press of Wales
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 262
- Language English