Aspects of antiquity
Subtitle: discoveries and controversies
By: by M. I. Finley
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: History, Ancient
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Desperately foreign.; title: The rediscovery of Crete.; title: Lost: the Trojan war.; title: Silver tongue.; title: Thucydides the moralist.; title: Socrates and Athens.; title: Plato and practical politics.; title: Diogenes the cynic.; title: Etruscheria.; title: The Etruscans and early Rome; new discoveries and ancient controversies.; title: The silent women of Rome.; title: The Emperor Diocletian.; title: Manpower and the fall of Rome.- -Aulus Kapreilius Timotheus, slave trader.; title: Christian beginnings; three views of historiography.; title: The year one.; title: Bibliographical notes (p. 215-220)