Aspects of antiquity : discoveries and controversies - Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912- (Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin, 1977)
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.
Previous ed.: London : Chatto and Windus, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: History, Ancient