{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic |honorific_prefix = |name = Lynette Mitchell |birth_date = 1966<ref name="DoB">{{cite web|url=https://opac.si.cobiss.net/opac7/conor/205488995|website=CONOR-SI|title=Mitchell, Lynette Gail, 1966-|access-date=15 June 2018}}</ref> |alma_mater = University of New England (Australia) <br /> Durham University |discipline = Classics|sub_discipline=Greek History |workplaces = University of Exeter |notable_works = ''Greeks Bearing Gifts ''<br />''Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece''<br />''The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece'' }}
'''Lynette Gail Mitchell''' (born 1966) is Professor Emerita in Greek History and Politics at the University of Exeter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/147-lynette-mitchell|title=Lynette Mitchell Profile {{!}} University of Exeter|website=experts.exeter.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2025-03-09}}</ref> Mitchell is known for her work on ancient Greek politics and kingship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171220-how-to-be-remembered-in-1000-years|title=Who will be remembered in 1,000 years?|last=Gorvett|first=Zaria|date=21 December 2017 |language=en|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref>
== Career == Mitchell obtained her BA at the University of New England (Australia) and then moved to the UK on a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.csfp-online.org/alumni/pdf/profile.pdf|date=2007-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709030001/http://www.csfp-online.org/alumni/pdf/profile.pdf|access-date=2018-06-14|archive-date=2007-07-09}}</ref> Mitchell completed her PhD at the University of Durham in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lynette Gail Mitchell |author1-link=Lynette Mitchell |title=The Greeks and their foreign friendships, 435-336 BC |url=https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5486/1/5486_2925.PDF?UkUDh:CyT |publisher=Durham University |access-date=19 July 2024 |date=1994}}</ref> She published her thesis as ''Greeks Bearing Gifts: the public use of private relationships 435-323 BC'' (Cambridge University Press) in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/greeks-bearing-gifts-public-use-private-relationships-greek-world-435323-bc?format=PB#pi5kJLZIrLLRluhS.97|title=Greeks bearing gifts public use private relationships greek world 435323 bc {{!}} Ancient history|website=Cambridge University Press|language=en|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref> Mitchell held a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgFPDgAAQBAJ&q=%22lynette+mitchell%22+exeter&pg=PR10|title=Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece|last=Mitchell|first=Lynette|date=2007-12-31|publisher=ISD LLC|isbn=9781910589472|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://centres.exeter.ac.uk/cms/conferences/Every_Inch_a_King-abstracts.pdf|title=Abstracts|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref>
In 1998 Mitchell was appointed as lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter becoming associate professor and then professor in 2013. She became the Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies in May 2007.<ref name=":1" /> Mitchell works primarily on ancient Greek politics and the relationship between Greek states, and between Greeks and non-Greeks, and on aspects of kingship.
Mitchell has been invited to lecture on her work widely, including the 2009 Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lecture at the University of Leicester on ''Queens and consorts: securing the succession in archaic and classical Greece?'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/academics/shipley/buchan-lectures|title=The Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lectures — University of Leicester|last=gjs|website=www2.le.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref> the 2016 Douglas MacDowell Memorial Lecture of the Classical Association of Scotland on ''Kingship, law and democracy,''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cas.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2014/09/CAS-memb-letter-2016-17.pdf|title=Classical Association of Scotland Newsletter|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref> a lecture on ''Monarchs in Democracy'' in 2017 for the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.intellectualhistory.net/events/monarchs-in-democracy/|title=Monarchs in democracy – Institute of Intellectual History|website=www.intellectualhistory.net|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref> and a keynote lecture in 2018 at the 18th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2018) on ''The politics of power: the rise and fall of the Deinomenid dynasty in fifth-century Sicily.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://sisu.ut.ee/caemc/icaem2018?lang=et|title=18th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2018): Power and (Op)position in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean World|access-date=2018-06-17|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://auke.ee/en/news/icaem-2018-power-and-opposition/|title=ICAEM 2018: "Power and (Op)position" — Aasia Uuringute Koda Eestis|website=auke.ee|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref>
Mitchell encourages wider participation in classical studies through various projects including the creation of ''Isca Latina'', a project for state school students to learn Latin,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/news/title_435632_en.html|title=University of Exeter|last=Robinson|first=Debbie|website=humanities.exeter.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.ucas.com/courses/details?coursePrimaryId=16a5d19d-99e4-dc69-460e-bd892e3e6ea7|title=Classics and Ancient History at University of Exeter - UCAS|website=digital.ucas.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-14}}</ref> and involvement in the Classical Association South-West Branch's annual Sixth-form Classics Conference.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theclassicslibrary.com/event/classics-sixth-form-conference-classical-association-and-university-of-exeter/|title=Classics Sixth-form Conference (Classical Association and University of Exeter) - The Classics Library|work=The Classics Library|access-date=2018-06-17|language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Select publications == * with C. Melville (eds) ''Every Inch a King. Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds'' (Leiden, Brill 2013) * ''The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece'' (London 2013)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Davies|first=Philip|date=2014|title=Review of: The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-06-30.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}</ref> * with L. Rubinstein (eds) ''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)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wrenhaven|first=Kelly Joss|date=2008|title=Review of: Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2008/2008-05-22.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Duplouy|first=Alain|date=2010|title=Review of Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece|jstor=antiqclassi.79.625|journal=L'Antiquité Classique|volume=79|pages=625–626}}</ref> *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r294d.18 'Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens'] In Lewis S. (Ed.), ''Ancient Tyranny'' (pp. 178–187). (Edinburgh University Press 2006) * ''Greeks Bearing Gifts: the public use of private relationships 435-323 BC'' (Cambridge University Press 1997)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lendon|first=J. E.|date=2002|editor-last=Mitchell|editor-first=Lynette G.|editor2-last=Jones|editor2-first=Christopher P.|editor3-last=Mattern|editor3-first=Susan P.|title=Primitivism and Ancient Foreign Relations|jstor=3298451|journal=The Classical Journal|volume=97|issue=4|pages=375–384}}</ref> * with P.J. Rhodes, ''The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece'' (Routledge 1997)
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== External links== *[https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/staff/l_mitchell/ University of Exeter staff page] *[https://exeterclassics.wordpress.com/staff-interviews/ Interview with Lynette Mitchell about her research] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pjphcQA17c Lecture on the gardens of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae]
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