The Ancient Economy

The Ancient Economy
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1973
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520024366

"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

The World of Odysseus

The World of Odysseus
Author: M. I. Finley
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1590170172

The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.

Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology

Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781558761704

The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation. '"

Democracy Ancient and Modern

Democracy Ancient and Modern
Author: M. I. Finley
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1978802323

Leaders and followers -- Athenian demagogues -- Democracy, consensus and the national interest -- Socrates and after -- Censorship in classical antiquity.

M. I. Finley

M. I. Finley
Author: Daniel Jew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316839516

M. I. Finley (1912–86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar to tens of thousands of radio listeners, his polemical reviews and other journalism were found all over the broadsheets and weeklies, and his scholarly as well as his popular works sold in very large numbers as Penguin paperbacks. Yet this was also a man dismissed from his job at Rutgers University when he refused to answer the question of whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party. This pioneering volume assesses Finley's achievements and analyses the nature of the impact of this charismatic individual and the means by which he changed the world of ancient history.

Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)

Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)
Author: M.I. Finley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136505644

Originally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the post-war years, of explanatory, ‘structuralist’ studies of this period in Roman history. The topics treated include Athenian politics, the Roman conquest of the east, violence in the later Roman Republic, the second Sophistic, and persecutions of the early Christians. The authors have all produced original studies, a number of which have generated significant research by other ancient historians.

Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500-200 B.C.

Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500-200 B.C.
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 392
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781412835350

In this classic study of the social and economic aspects of landcredit relationships in ancient Athens, first published in 1952, Moses Finley presents a systematic account of the guarantee aspects of credit. He examines the outward forms of credit transactions, the legal instruments employed, the kind of real property customarily used to guarantee debts, and the parties engaged in these transactions.

Politics in the Ancient World

Politics in the Ancient World
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1983-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521275705

Sir Moses Finley explores politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome and their impact on our understanding of the ancient world.