Title M.I. Finley : an ancient historian and his impact / edited by Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne, Michael Scott

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 333) Series Cambridge classical studies Cambridge classical studies. Contents Introduction: Finley's impact -- a balance sheet / Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne and Michael Scott -- The making of Moses Finley / Daniel P. Tompkins -- The impact of Studies in land and credit / Paul Millett -- Finley's impact on Homer / Robin Osborne -- Finley's slavery / Kostas Vlassopoulos -- Finley and Sicily / Jonathan R.W. Prag -- Finley and the teaching of ancient history / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Finley's journalism / Mary Beard -- Finley and the University of Cambridge / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Finley and other scholars: the case of Finley and Momigliano / Peter Garnsey -- Finley's democracy: a study in reception (and non-reception) / Paul Cartledge -- Finley and the ancient economy / Alessandro Launaro -- Finley and archaeology / Jennifer Gates-Foster -- Finley's impact on the continent / Wilfried Nippel -- Measuring Finley's impact / Walter Scheidel Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Notes Based on a conference held in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge during May, 2012 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2016) Subject Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986 -- Influence -- Congresses SUBJECT Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986 fast Subject Historians -- United States -- Congresses Historians -- Great Britain -- Congresses Classicists -- United States -- Congresses Classicists -- Great Britain -- Congresses HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Classicists Historians Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Great Britain United States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Jew, Daniel, 1973- editor. Osborne, Robin, 1957- editor. Scott, Michael, 1981- editor. ISBN 9781316840771 1316840778 9781316840351 1316840352 9781316569276 1316569276 9781316603536 1316603539 1316839931 9781316839935 1316840077 9781316840078 1316840212 9781316840214

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