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Aspects of antiquity : discoveries and controversies / M.I. Finley.

By: Series: Pelican booksPublication details: Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin, 1977.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 216p ; maps ; pbk ; 19cmISBN:
  • 0140215093
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930/FIN
Contents:
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.
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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.

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