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The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics Series)
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The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics Series) Trade paperback - 2002

by M.I. Finley

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NYRB Classics, August 2002. Trade Paperback. Good. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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  • Title The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics Series)
  • Author M.I. Finley
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 4th printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NYRB Classics, New York
  • Date August 2002
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1063143
  • ISBN 9781590170175 / 1590170172
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.05 x 0.56 in (20.32 x 12.83 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Troy (Extinct city), Homer
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002002882
  • Dewey Decimal Code 913.380

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  • Atlantic Monthly, 11/01/2002, Page 109

About the author

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.

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