The World of Odysseus: Revised Edition - Couverture souple

Finley, M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140205705 ISBN 13 : 9780140205701

Editeur : Penguin, 1979

Synopsis

Book by Finley M I

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the thirties, Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley’s best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.

Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Who was Homer? When were Iliad and the Odyssey composed? When and why did the Trojan War occur? What sort of society did Odysseus, Achilles, Helen, Hector and Priam live in? What were their beliefs about government, religion, class and sex? Many such questions spring to the minds of the hundreds of thousands of people who have read Homer. The answers are provided in The Worl of Odysseus by a Cambridge scholar, who has used both the evidence of the texts and the latest researches in archaeology and anthropology to reconstruct a clear and absorbing picture of the Homeric age.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140205705
• ISBN 13: 9780140205701
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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