M. I. Finley

Klappentext An assessment of how the most famous ancient historian of the twentieth century achieved his impact. Zusammenfassung This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as within the academy, analysing the means and nature of his impact, and telling how a scholar expelled from the United States for communist links became a part of the British establishment.

Autorentext
Daniel Jew is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, College of Alice and Peter Tan, and was formerly Finley Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge.Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and of the British Academy. His work ranges widely over Greek history, archaeology and art history. His most recent books are Athens and Athenian Democracy (Cambridge, 2010), The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (Cambridge, 2011), and Greek History: the Basics (2014).Michael Scott is a former Finley Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, and is now Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. His publications range across Greek and Roman history and archaeology and include Delphi and Olympia (Cambridge, 2010) Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012), Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World (2014) and Ancient Worlds (2016). He has also written and presented a number of documentaries and radio programmes about the ancient Mediterranean world for the BBC, ITV, National Geographic and the History Channel.

Zusammenfassung
This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as within the academy, analysing the means and nature of his impact, and telling how a scholar expelled from the United States for communist links became a part of the British establishment.

Inhalt
1. Introduction: Finley's impact - a balance sheet Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne and Michael Scott; 2. The making of Moses Finley Daniel P. Tompkins; 3. The impact of Studies in Land and Credit Paul Millett; 4. Finley's impact on Homer Robin Osborne; 5. Finley's slavery Kostas Vlassopoulos; 6. Finley and Sicily Jonathan R. W. Prag; 7. Finley and the teaching of ancient history Dorothy J. Thompson; 8. Finley's journalism Mary Beard; 9. Finley and the University of Cambridge Geoffrey Lloyd; 10. Finley and other scholars: the case of Finley and Momigliano Peter Garnsey; 11. Finley's democracy Paul Cartledge; 12. Finley and the ancient economy Alessandro Launaro; 13. Finley and archaeology Jennifer Gates-Foster; 14. Finley's impact on the continent Wilfried Nippel; 15. Measuring Finley's impact Walter Scheidel.

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