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Aspects of antiquity ; discoveries and controversies /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking Press, [1968]
Subjects:
History, Ancient.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Desperately foreign
  • The rediscovery of Crete
  • Lost: the Trojan war
  • Silver tongue
  • Thucydides the moralist
  • Socrates and Athens
  • Plato and practical politics
  • Diogenes the cynic
  • Etruscheria
  • The Etruscans and early Rome; new discoveries and ancient controversies
  • The silent women of Rome
  • The Emperor Diocletian
  • Manpower and the fall of Rome
  • Aulus Kapreilius Timotheus, slave trader
  • Christian beginnings; three views of historiography
  • The year one
  • Bibliographical notes (p. 215-220)