Aspects of antiquity :
Finley, M. I. 1912-
Aspects of antiquity : discoveries and controversies / M.I. Finley. - 2nd ed. - Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin, 1977. - 216p ; maps ; pbk ; 19cm. - Pelican books. .
Previous ed.: London : Chatto and Windus, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Introduction : Desperately foreign -- The rediscovery of Crete -- Lost : the Trojan War -- Silver tongue -- Thucydides the moralist -- Socrates and Athens -- Plato and the practical politics -- Diogenes the Cynic -- Etruscheria -- The Etruscans and Rome -- The silent women of Rome -- The Emperor Diocletian -- Manpower and the fall of Rome -- Aulos Kapreilios Timotheos, slave trader -- Christian beginnings : three views of historiography : 1 Allegory and influence; 2. The primitive church; 3. The Jews and the death of Jesus. -- The year one.
0140215093
b7801829
History, Ancient.
930/FIN
Aspects of antiquity : discoveries and controversies / M.I. Finley. - 2nd ed. - Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin, 1977. - 216p ; maps ; pbk ; 19cm. - Pelican books. .
Previous ed.: London : Chatto and Windus, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Introduction : Desperately foreign -- The rediscovery of Crete -- Lost : the Trojan War -- Silver tongue -- Thucydides the moralist -- Socrates and Athens -- Plato and the practical politics -- Diogenes the Cynic -- Etruscheria -- The Etruscans and Rome -- The silent women of Rome -- The Emperor Diocletian -- Manpower and the fall of Rome -- Aulos Kapreilios Timotheos, slave trader -- Christian beginnings : three views of historiography : 1 Allegory and influence; 2. The primitive church; 3. The Jews and the death of Jesus. -- The year one.
0140215093
b7801829
History, Ancient.
930/FIN
