Moses Finley (1912-1986) was one of the most widely read scholarly historians and journalists of his age, having grown famous with The World of Odysseus; and he exercised a transformative influence on the study of the history of Greek and Roman antiquity. In this centenary volume distinguished ancient historians and Americanists analyse Finleys political and intellectual evolution, and attempt to understand the paradoxes of the young leftist and victim of McCarthyism whose work owes more to Weber than to Marx and of the young Jewish scholar (Moses Finkelstein) who distanced himself from Jewishness.
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| A Brief Introduction |
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Moses Finkelstein and the American Scene: The Political Formation of Moses Finley, 1932--1955 |
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Finkelstein the Orientalist |
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The Young Moses Finley and the Discipline of Economics |
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Moses Finley and the Academic Red Scare |
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79 | (14) |
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Finley's Democracy/Democracy's Finley |
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Politics in the Ancient World and Politics |
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107 | (16) |
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Un-Athenian Affairs: I. F. Stone, M. I. Finley, and the Trial of Socrates |
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| Bibliography |
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W.V. Harris is Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University. He has written widely about the social, psychological, and economic history of the Graeco-Roman world, and about Roman imperialism. In 2011 he published Rome's Imperial Economy.
Contributors: Paul Cartledge, W.V. Harris, Thai Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, Richard P. Saller, Ellen Schrecker, Seth R. Schwartz, Daniel Tompkins.
