The World of Odysseus - Paperback
by M. I. Finley
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Availability:In StockContributor:M. I. Finley, Bernard Knox (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2002-09-30Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590170175ISBN-10:1590170172UPC:9781590170175Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, Social HistoryBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.00 x 5.05 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCWQ826HS7
The World of Odysseus
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590170175ISBN-10:1590170172UPC:9781590170175Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, Social HistoryBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.00 x 5.05 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCWQ826HS7
M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the thirties, Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of the ancient world that...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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