Moses Finley  

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Sir Moses Isaac Finley, FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where he became an English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973) in which he argued that the economy in antiquity was governed by status and civic ideology, rather than rational economic motivations.

Bibliography

• Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500–200 B.C.: The Horos Inscriptions (1951).
• Economy and Society in Ancient Greece (1953).
• The World of Odysseus (1954).
• Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies (1960).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction to Their Life and Thought (1963).
• A History of Sicily: Ancient Sicily to the Arab Conquest (1968).
• Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies (1968).
• Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages (1970).
• The Ancient Economy (1973).
• Democracy Ancient and Modern (1973).
• Studies in Ancient Society, editor (1974).
• The Use and Abuse of History (1975).
• Schliemann's Troy: One Hundred Years After (1975).
• Studies in Roman Property, editor (1976).
• The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years, with H.W. Pleket (1976).
• Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (1980; expanded edition edited by Brent D. Shaw, 1998).
• The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal (1981).
• Authority and Legitimacy in the Classical City-State (1982).
• Politics in the Ancient World (1983).
• Ancient History: Evidence and Models (1985).

Finley was also the editor of numerous volumes of essays on ancient history.

See also

• Morris U. Cohen
• Jack D. Foner
• Morris Schappes
• Rapp-Coudert Committee