M. I. Finley
M. I. Finley
Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge
Michael Scott, University of Warwick
M. I. Finley (1912–86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar to tens of thousands of radio listeners, his polemical reviews and other journalism were found all over the broadsheets and weeklies, and his scholarly as well as his popular works sold in very large numbers as Penguin paperbacks. Yet this was also a man dismissed from his job at Rutgers University when he refused to answer the question of whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party. This pioneering volume assesses Finley's achievements and analyses the nature of the impact of this charismatic individual and the means by which he changed the world of ancient history.
- A prolonged critical engagement with Finley's work, unparalleled in treatments of other scholars, and important for all those tackling the major ancient historical problems which his work addressed
- The first serious attempt to understand the impact made by a humanities scholar, engaging those who desire themselves to achieve impact by their work in the arts and humanities and revealing to policy-makers how impact has been achieved in the past
- Tells a fascinating story of Finley's life and his changing interests and is an engaging biographical history of a great scholar
Product details
October 2016Hardback
9781107149267
348 pages
223 × 147 × 23 mm
0.53kg
9 b/w illus. 3 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Finley's impact - a balance sheet Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne and Michael Scott
- 2. The making of Moses Finley Daniel P. Tompkins
- 3. The impact of Studies in Land and Credit Paul Millett
- 4. Finley's impact on Homer Robin Osborne
- 5. Finley's slavery Kostas Vlassopoulos
- 6. Finley and Sicily Jonathan R. W. Prag
- 7. Finley and the teaching of ancient history Dorothy J. Thompson
- 8. Finley's journalism Mary Beard
- 9. Finley and the University of Cambridge Geoffrey Lloyd
- 10. Finley and other scholars: the case of Finley and Momigliano Peter Garnsey
- 11. Finley's democracy Paul Cartledge
- 12. Finley and the ancient economy Alessandro Launaro
- 13. Finley and archaeology Jennifer Gates-Foster
- 14. Finley's impact on the continent Wilfried Nippel
- 15. Measuring Finley's impact Walter Scheidel.
