Daniel P Tompkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1073117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel P Tompkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel P |
| FAMILY NAME | Tompkins |
| SIGNATURE | TOMPKINS D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Honor, Fear and Profit
The Making of Moses Finley
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Greek Rituals of War
This chapter examines the Greek military ritual of war. It evaluates the recent interpretations of military ritual, indicating that the term “ritual” in the present day has taken on so many connotations as to reduce its analytic utility, and that the claim that rituals promote “social cohesion” requires careful review. Lunar festivals deeply affected Greek military behavior. Booty from war was traditionally tithed. The burial ritual followed elab…
Moses Finkelstein and the American Scene
This chapter reconstructs the lifelong intertwining of scholarship and politics that distinguishes Moses Finley from most other historians ancient. Finley's 'American Scene' is not a backdrop or stage set, but a sequence of events in which he was an agent. His mature understanding of land tenure, labor practices, political participation, class and ethnic tensions, and other topics followed not only study of but participation in three tumultuous d…
The Language of Pericles
When K.J. Dover asserted that There is very little individual characterization of in Thucydides (Thucydides [Oxford, 1973], p. 23), he recorded both his own position and the scholarly consensus. But Dover’s claim is open to challenge. The diction, sentence structure, and other features of Pericles’ three direct speeches (Thucydides 1.140-144, 2.35-46, 2.60-64) are distinctive, in ways that illuminate the nature of Periclean leadership. Diction: P…
Debt, Greece and Rome
Debt suffused the ancient world at all levels, from impoverished peasants to the elite of Rome and Athens.
Finley, Moses (1912–1986)
Moses Finley (1912–1986), born Moses Finkelstein, received a BA at Syracuse University in 1927, then an MA in public law at Columbia University in 1929, with a thesis on the first Justice Harlan, famed dissenter in civil rights cases.
Weber, Polanyi, and Finley
Enemy in the Mirror
The Invention of Athens
Thucydides
To Abstract Reality
Stylistic characterization in Thucydides
T hat characters exist in Thucydides, and that their distinctive traits influence historical action, cannot be disputed. Themistocles' wit and effectiveness are first displayed (I. 90–3, I. 135–8) and then described (I. 138. 2–3). The traits that made Pericles a great statesman are affirmed, as are the personal qualities that determined Cleon's influence (II. 65, III. 38. 6, V. 16. I). We are also given an explicit statement that Alcibiades' char…
Euripides, Medea and Other Plays (Hecabe, Electra, Heracles)
Euripides, Medea and Other Plays (Hecabe, Electra, Heracles)
Stylistic characterization in Thucydides
T hat characters exist in Thucydides, and that their distinctive traits influence historical action, cannot be disputed. Themistocles' wit and effectiveness are first displayed (I. 90–3, I. 135–8) and then described (I. 138. 2–3). The traits that made Pericles a great statesman are affirmed, as are the personal qualities that determined Cleon's influence (II. 65, III. 38. 6, V. 16. I). We are also given an explicit statement that Alcibiades' char…
To Abstract Reality
Thucydides
The Invention of Athens
Enemy in the Mirror
Weber, Polanyi, and Finley
Debt, Greece and Rome
Debt suffused the ancient world at all levels, from impoverished peasants to the elite of Rome and Athens.
Finley, Moses (1912–1986)
Moses Finley (1912–1986), born Moses Finkelstein, received a BA at Syracuse University in 1927, then an MA in public law at Columbia University in 1929, with a thesis on the first Justice Harlan, famed dissenter in civil rights cases.
Greek Rituals of War
This chapter examines the Greek military ritual of war. It evaluates the recent interpretations of military ritual, indicating that the term “ritual” in the present day has taken on so many connotations as to reduce its analytic utility, and that the claim that rituals promote “social cohesion” requires careful review. Lunar festivals deeply affected Greek military behavior. Booty from war was traditionally tithed. The burial ritual followed elab…
Moses Finkelstein and the American Scene
This chapter reconstructs the lifelong intertwining of scholarship and politics that distinguishes Moses Finley from most other historians ancient. Finley's 'American Scene' is not a backdrop or stage set, but a sequence of events in which he was an agent. His mature understanding of land tenure, labor practices, political participation, class and ethnic tensions, and other topics followed not only study of but participation in three tumultuous d…
The Language of Pericles
When K.J. Dover asserted that There is very little individual characterization of in Thucydides (Thucydides [Oxford, 1973], p. 23), he recorded both his own position and the scholarly consensus. But Dover’s claim is open to challenge. The diction, sentence structure, and other features of Pericles’ three direct speeches (Thucydides 1.140-144, 2.35-46, 2.60-64) are distinctive, in ways that illuminate the nature of Periclean leadership. Diction: P…
The Making of Moses Finley
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Honor, Fear and Profit
History (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Classics (2 works)