M I Finley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 145829 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M I Finley |
| NOMBRES | M I |
| APELLIDO | Finley |
| FIRMA | FINLEY M I |
| AFILIACIONES | Jesus University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1198 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1948 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Western democracy is now at a critical juncture. Some worry that power has been wrested from the people and placed in the hands of a small political elite. Others argue that the democratic system gives too much power to a populace that is largely ill-informed and easily swayed by demagogues. This classic study of democratic principles is thus now more relevant than ever. A renowned historian of antiquity and political philosophy, Sir M.I. Finley …
Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)
Athenian Demagogues
The Silent Women of Rome
This chapter contains sections titled: Funerary Inscriptions Lucius Aurelius and his wife, Aurelia. Stone slab in the British Museum, c.80 bce or later Posilla Senenia, daughter of Quartos, and Quarta Senenia, freedwoman of Gaius. Found at Trebula Mutossa in Samnium Eucharis of Lucinia, an unmarried girl educated and skilled in the arts, who died at age 14. First century bce, Rome A portion of a eulogy for Murdia delivered by her son from her fir…
Ancient Economy
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 …
Ancient History
In this study, the author challenges the prevailing traditions of researching and writing about ancient civilizations. He questions, for example, the special status accorded to classic texts, exposes the false assumptions historians have made, based on limited information, and presents the flaws inherent in conventional explanations of the Greek city-state. Emphasizing the need to ask the right questions in order to expand our understanding of li…
Ancient History
Ancient History
The Use and Abuse of History
Revolution in antiquity
Revolution is one of a class of words widely employed without definition both in current speech and in professional historical and sociological writings, with a great (and even mutually) contradictory variety of meanings, and yet often (though by no means always) with sufficient intelligibility. That provides the rationale for this book. Much of it is devoted to the effort to clarify the ways in which the same word can range in meaning from, say,…
Democracy Ancient and Modern
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,…
Politics in the Ancient World
Politics in the Ancient World
The business of politics - the vital process of conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. Sir Moses Finley's exploration of politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome yields insights into the arenas of political debate which have made a major impact on our understanding of the ancient world. The early political involv…
Economy and society in ancient Greece
Economy and Society in Ancient Greece
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Ancient slavery and modern ideology the emergence of a slave society slavery and humanity the decline of ancient slavery
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
This article examines the complex relationship between ancient slavery and modern ideologies, particularly Marxism. It argues that modern interpretations of ancient slavery are often shaped by present-day concerns and political biases, leading to distortions and misrepresentations of the historical reality. The authors challenge the Marxist view of ancient slavery as a mode of production analogous to modern capitalism, emphasizing the diverse for…
Ancient Sicily
The Fifth-Century Athenian Empire
‘Every doctrine of imperialism devised by men is a consequence of their second thoughts. But empires are not built by men troubled by second thoughts.’ I start with that aphoristic formulation, the truth of which has been demonstrated in the study of modern imperialisms, as an antidote to the familiar practice of beginning a discussion of the Athenian empire with aims and motives and quickly sliding over to attitudes and even theory, thereby impl…
Imperialism in the Ancient World
The economics of imperialism, its political background and institutional frameworks, the material benefits it conferred, the ideologies of ruler and ruled - these are some of the more important aspects of imperialism discussed in this volume. In presenting the evidence for ancient imperialims and suggesting concepts and methods of interpretation these articles, which are the work of the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, ra…
Aspects of Antiquity. Discoveries and Controversies
The Olympic Games
The Use and Abuse of History
Studies in Roman Property
Preface 1. Introduction M. I. Finley 2. Some configurations of landholding in the Roman empire R. P. Duncan-Jones 3. Imperial estates Dorothy J. Crawford 4. Classical Roman law and the sale of land John Crook 5. The Ciceronian aristocracy and its properties Elizabeth Rawson 6. Private farm tenancy in Italy before Diocletian M. I. Finley 7. Urban property investment Peter Garnsey 8. Agri deserti C. R. Whittaker Notes Bibliography Index
Economy and society in ancient Greece
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
This article examines the complex relationship between ancient slavery and modern ideologies, particularly Marxism. It argues that modern interpretations of ancient slavery are often shaped by present-day concerns and political biases, leading to distortions and misrepresentations of the historical reality. The authors challenge the Marxist view of ancient slavery as a mode of production analogous to modern capitalism, emphasizing the diverse for…
Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World
M. I. Finley, Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 1, Essays in Economic History Presented to Professor M. M. Postan (1965), pp. 29-45
Ancient Economy
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 …
Between Slavery and Freedom
I have taken my title from theOnomastikonorWord-Bookof an Alexandrian Greek of the second century of our era named Julius Pollux. At the end of a longish section (3.73-83) listing, and sometimes exemplifying, the Greek words which meant 'slave' or 'enslave', in certain contexts at least, Pollux noted that there were also men like the helots in Sparta or thepenestaein Thessaly who stood 'between the free men and the slaves'. It is no use pretendin…
The Black Sea and Danubian Regions and the Slave Trade in Antiquity
The Ancient City
The Graeco-Roman world, with which I am concerned to the exclusion of the pre-Greek Near East, was a world of cities. Even the agrarian population, always a majority, most often lived in communities of some kind, hamlets, villages, towns, not in isolated farm homesteads. It is a reasonable and defensible guess that, for the better part of a thousand years, more and more of the inhabitants of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia lived in towns…
Ancient History
In this study, the author challenges the prevailing traditions of researching and writing about ancient civilizations. He questions, for example, the special status accorded to classic texts, exposes the false assumptions historians have made, based on limited information, and presents the flaws inherent in conventional explanations of the Greek city-state. Emphasizing the need to ask the right questions in order to expand our understanding of li…
Ancient History
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete
Aristotle and Economic Analysis
Land, Debt, and the Man of Property in Classical Athens
Journal Article Land, Debt, and the Man of Property in Classical Athens Get access M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Englewood, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 2, June 1953, Pages 249–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2144970 Published: 15 June 1953
Colonies— an Attempt at a Typology
IN her recently published diary of her first visit to Africa, in 1929, Margery Perham reported a conversation with seven degree-course men at the newly established college at Fort Hare. When, inevitably, talk got round to conditions in South Africa, they asked ‘terrible questions’. ‘Can England do nothing then?’ ‘But South Africa is the possession of England.’ ‘But the King! He is King of South Africa. What does he think? Will he do nothing?’
Athenian Demagogues1
ATHENIAN DEMAGOGUES1 Get access M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Jesus CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 1962, Pages 3–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/21.1.3 Published: 01 April 1962
Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius
Democracy Ancient and Modern
The Mycenaean Tablets and Economic History
The World of Odysseus
Myth, Memory, and History
The Fathers of History were Greeks. Historians of antiquity are very proud of that, so much so that they prefer not to remember that some of the best minds in antiquity were not all impressed by this achievement. History as a discipline has always been a great favorite with the coiners of bons mots it is false, it is dangerous, it is bunk. But it has never been dismissed more peremptorily, in a serious way, than in the f amous dictum in the ninth…
Ancient History
Early Greece
The Growth of the Athenian Economy
Journal Article The Growth of the Athenian Economy Get access The Growth of the Athenian Economy. By A. French. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. Pp. xii + 208. 30s.) M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Jesus College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 300, 1 December 1965, Pages 849–851, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229703 Published: 01 December 1965
Early Greece
Politics in the Ancient World
Kingship and the Gods
Roman Law
Journal Article Roman Law: An Historical Introduction Get access Wolff H. J.Roman Law: An Historical Introduction.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951 Pp. xiii, 260. M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 1, Issue 3, Summer 1952, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/837796 Published: 01 July 1952
Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius
Land, Debt, and the Man of Property in Classical Athens
Journal Article Land, Debt, and the Man of Property in Classical Athens Get access M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Englewood, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 2, June 1953, Pages 249–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2144970 Published: 15 June 1953
The Ancient Greeks and Their Nation
The World of Odysseus
The Law of Greco-Roman Egypt in the Light of the Papyri (332 B.C.-640 A.D.)
The World of Odysseus
The Mycenaean Tablets and Economic History
Note
Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete
Technology in the Ancient World
Essays in Bibliography and Criticism Xl. Technology in the Ancient World
Slavery in Classical Antiquity
The Portable Greek Historians
The Black Sea and Danubian Regions and the Slave Trade in Antiquity
Athenian Demagogues1
ATHENIAN DEMAGOGUES1 Get access M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Jesus CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 1962, Pages 3–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/21.1.3 Published: 01 April 1962
The Ancient Greeks
Between Slavery and Freedom
I have taken my title from theOnomastikonorWord-Bookof an Alexandrian Greek of the second century of our era named Julius Pollux. At the end of a longish section (3.73-83) listing, and sometimes exemplifying, the Greek words which meant 'slave' or 'enslave', in certain contexts at least, Pollux noted that there were also men like the helots in Sparta or thepenestaein Thessaly who stood 'between the free men and the slaves'. It is no use pretendin…
The Growth of the Athenian Economy
Journal Article The Growth of the Athenian Economy Get access The Growth of the Athenian Economy. By A. French. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. Pp. xii + 208. 30s.) M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Jesus College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 300, 1 December 1965, Pages 849–851, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229703 Published: 01 December 1965
Myth, Memory, and History
The Fathers of History were Greeks. Historians of antiquity are very proud of that, so much so that they prefer not to remember that some of the best minds in antiquity were not all impressed by this achievement. History as a discipline has always been a great favorite with the coiners of bons mots it is false, it is dangerous, it is bunk. But it has never been dismissed more peremptorily, in a serious way, than in the f amous dictum in the ninth…
Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World
M. I. Finley, Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 1, Essays in Economic History Presented to Professor M. M. Postan (1965), pp. 29-45
Death, Fate and the Gods
Terzo Contributo Alla Storia Degli Studi Classici e del Mondo Antico
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access M. I. FINLEY M. I. FINLEY Jesus CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIV, Issue CCCXXXI, April 1969, Pages 374-b–375, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXI.374-b Published: 01 April 1969
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