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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.
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
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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.
