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1.History of the Peloponnesian War (Classics) by: Thucydides February 28, 1974
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Thucydides follows self-consciously on from Herodotus as a 'historian' but takes a very different tack. Partly this is due to their place in history: Herodotus was the product of a triumphant Athens leading the mediterannean world after shockingly defeating the huge Persian invasion of Greece, while Thucydides lives through the decline of Athens from her high point under Pericles through to her final defeat under Sparta. A critic of Athenian democracy and the rise of the demagogues, Thucydides is also a participant in the 37 years long war, as strategos (General) who was defeated at Amphipolis and exiled from Athens. What is amazing is his ability to stay detached and analytical, despite his personal involvement in events. This is a heart ... Read More:

2.The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics) by: Moses I. Finley, M. I. Finley 2002-08
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Entertaining account of the social milieu of the Homeric poems. After reading the poems themselves, the perfect gentle introduction to the oft-impenetrable world of moden scholarship. Helps restore and explain the "otherness" of the Homeric world, the features that strike us as odd and even funny are well explained.

3.The World of Odysseus by: M. I. Finley April 19, 1978
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Entertaining account of the social milieu of the Homeric poems. After reading the poems themselves, the perfect gentle introduction to the oft-impenetrable world of moden scholarship. Helps restore and explain the "otherness" of the Homeric world, the features that strike us as odd and even funny are well explained.

4.The World of Odysseus (Pelican books) by: M. I. Finley 1962
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Entertaining account of the social milieu of the Homeric poems. After reading the poems themselves, the perfect gentle introduction to the oft-impenetrable world of moden scholarship. Helps restore and explain the "otherness" of the Homeric world, the features that strike us as odd and even funny are well explained.

5.The Ancient Greeks (Pelican) by: M.I. Finley November 25, 1971
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Entertaining account of the social milieu of the Homeric poems. After reading the poems themselves, the perfect gentle introduction to the oft-impenetrable world of moden scholarship. Helps restore and explain the "otherness" of the Homeric world, the features that strike us as odd and even funny are well explained.

6.Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies by: M.I. Finley September 26, 1991
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This book contains a collection of essays on the ancient world, from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. This book is still a good read and was a relevant and scholarly work when I read it. Now decade's later new information has come to light. But Finely method of writing makes this publication still worth reading. For his methods would not allow him to speculate without sufficient factual data so you can be assured of his stated historical facts in the small book as they were known at time of original publication. He wrote a book that would lead the reader in a direction to seek answer to those areas that they found interesting. I still find this to be a good introductory book.

7.Economy and Society in Ancient Greece (Pelican) by: M.I. Finley 1983-08
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This book contains a collection of essays on the ancient world, from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. This book is still a good read and was a relevant and scholarly work when I read it. Now decade's later new information has come to light. But Finely method of writing makes this publication still worth reading. For his methods would not allow him to speculate without sufficient factual data so you can be assured of his stated historical facts in the small book as they were known at time of original publication. He wrote a book that would lead the reader in a direction to seek answer to those areas that they found interesting. I still find this to be a good introductory book.

8.The World of Odysseus by: M I Finley 2002
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This book contains a collection of essays on the ancient world, from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. This book is still a good read and was a relevant and scholarly work when I read it. Now decade's later new information has come to light. But Finely method of writing makes this publication still worth reading. For his methods would not allow him to speculate without sufficient factual data so you can be assured of his stated historical facts in the small book as they were known at time of original publication. He wrote a book that would lead the reader in a direction to seek answer to those areas that they found interesting. I still find this to be a good introductory book.

9.Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (Penguin History) by: M.I. Finley September 24, 1992
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This book contains a collection of essays on the ancient world, from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. This book is still a good read and was a relevant and scholarly work when I read it. Now decade's later new information has come to light. But Finely method of writing makes this publication still worth reading. For his methods would not allow him to speculate without sufficient factual data so you can be assured of his stated historical facts in the small book as they were known at time of original publication. He wrote a book that would lead the reader in a direction to seek answer to those areas that they found interesting. I still find this to be a good introductory book.

10.Studies in Ancient Society (Past & Present S.) from: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC March 21, 1974
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This book contains a collection of essays on the ancient world, from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. This book is still a good read and was a relevant and scholarly work when I read it. Now decade's later new information has come to light. But Finely method of writing makes this publication still worth reading. For his methods would not allow him to speculate without sufficient factual data so you can be assured of his stated historical facts in the small book as they were known at time of original publication. He wrote a book that would lead the reader in a direction to seek answer to those areas that they found interesting. I still find this to be a good introductory book.

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