President of the Archaeological Institute of America, professor at the University of Michigan from 1889 to 1927, and president of the American Philological Association, Francis Kelsey was crucially involved in the founding or growth of major educational institutions. He came to …
Marking the centenary of the birth of M.I. Finley, the famous historian of the ancient world and a refugee from McCarthyism, a combined group of ancient and American historians here set out to analyse his political and intellectual evolution.
A brief introduction / W.V. Harris -- Moses Finkelstein and the American scene : the political formation of Moses Finley, 1932-1955 / Daniel P. Tompkins -- Finkelstein the orientalist / Seth R. Schwartz -- The young Moses Finley and the discipline of economics / Richard P. Salle…
Moses Finley (1912-1986) was one of the most widely read scholarly historians and journalists of his age, having grown famous with The World of Odysseus ; and he exercised a transformative influence on the study of the history of Greek and Roman antiquity. In this centenary volu…
