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Title: Aspects of Antiquity Discoveries and Contr by M I Finley ISBN: 0-670-00252-6 Publisher: Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1974 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

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Summary: Overly careful & outdated scholarship; good for the beginner
Comment: A collection of essays on the ancient world, from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. Finley is a careful writer and an even more careful scholar; he doesn't make rash conclusions about points of historical controversy. And there's much solid historical fact to learn in this slim collection: about slaves and freemen and the status of women in Rome, Plato and democracy in Athens, Diocletian the autocrat, and so on. However, there are obviously good reasons not to read a book whose scholarship is thirty-five old (26, where it was revised in 1977). And then, Finley is often simply too careful not to make pronouncements: many chapters end on questions, such as why cynicism as a philosophy became popular, or how Crete was related to classical Greek culture, without any answers. Not too satisfying.