With photographs and illustrations the work illuminates the most important archaeological areas (to Western eyes) that evolved or were noted between 1000 BC and 500 AD. For these sites a considerable body of knowledge exists; therefore a review of the sites comprehended in the Atlas furnishes one with a thorough grounding (pun intended!) in the development of Western society.

Atlas of Classical Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

M. I. Finley

Archaeology

McGraw=Hill

In this collection of 15 essays the author of "The Ancient Greeks" and "The World of Odysseus" highlights aspects of the ancient world ranging from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire 20 centuries later. He describes archaeological discoveries which have made the lost civilization of Crete more accessible, he argues that the Greeks may never have taken Troy, and discusses the trial of Socrates in 399 BC. This book combines up-to-date scholarship with an historical imagination to help the reader to continue a dialogue between the past and the present.

Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies

History

Penguin??Books

This volume is a collection of essays ranging from detailed studies of ancient societies to a discussion of the broader topics of historical technique. The book also considers what the classical tradition has to offer us. From the author of "The Ancient Greeks".

The Use and Abuse of History

Americas

Penguin

Early Greece: The bronze and archaic ages (Ancient culture and society)

This admirable study has now been revised and enlarged by Professor Finley in the light of the latest archeological evidence and relevant scholarship. It provides, succinctly and authoritatively, the background information needed for a proper understanding of classical Greek civilizationM. I. Finley here reconstructs the "preliterary" background to Greek civilization by an examination of recent archeological discoveries and a critical reappraisal of older archeological evidence. He discusses the problems that dependence on such evidence poses for the historian, for, although archeology reveals changes and even cataclysms, it rarely allows us more than a restricted view of a society under normal conditions. He points out the difficulties in reconciling the mythological "evidence" and the archeological, particularly in Crete and Troy, and analyzes and distinguishes the elements of historic fact and legend in the Iliad and Odyssey

Ancient Civilizations

Norton

"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading. Available again, with a new foreword by Ian Morris, these sagacious, fertile, and occasionally combative essays are just as electrifying today as when Finley first wrote them.

The Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures)

Business & Money

Economics

University of California Press

"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading. Available again, with a new foreword by Ian Morris, these sagacious, fertile, and occasionally combative essays are just as electrifying today as when Finley first wrote them.

The Ancient Economy

1982, Hardcover with dust jacket, 326 pages

Economy and Society in Ancient Greece

Europe

Viking Press

Draws from literary, archaeological, and architectural evidence to investigate the nature, format, contests, participants, and politics of the ancient Olympic Games during their thousand years of existence

The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years

H. W. Pleket

Viking Adult

A history of the small but significant island of Sicily discusses the cultural mix left as a legacy by the civilizations who have dominated the island in the past and the progressive material impoverishment that the island has suffered

A History of Sicily

Christopher Duggan

Denis Mack Smith

This elegant and provocative book is perhaps more important now than  when it was first published. The three essays that comprised the first  edition developed a remarkable discourse between ancient Greek and  modern conceptions of democracy, in the belief that each society could  help us understand the other. To the original three essays, Sir M. I.  Finley has added two that clarify and elaborate the thinking of the  first edition. The two new essays, "Athenian Dialogues" and  "Censorship in Classical Antiquity" combine with "Leaders and  Followers," "Democracy, Consensus, and the National Interest," "Socrates  and After" to make this book an unusual inquiry. Few contemporary  writers are able to bring to the subject the depth of learning and the  persuasive power of language that Sir M. I. Finley brings.

Democracy Ancient and Modern

Politics & Government

The Hogarth Press

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