• Sir Moses Israel Finley FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution...
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    Cornell University Press. pp. 136–137., noting that economic historian Moses Finley maintained "serf" was an incorrect term to apply to the social structures...
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    organizer of the "communal affairs of humans, particularly assemblies." Moses Finley remarked of themis, as the word was used by Homer in the 8th century...
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  • as Modern Italy: A Political History, 1997. A History of Sicily, with Moses Finley, in two volumes, Medieval Sicily 800-1713 and Modern Sicily after 1713...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    the oldest Utopia of which we know, as pointed out many years ago by Moses Finley, is Homer's Scheria, island of the Phaeacians. A mythical place, often...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    audiences, its academic reception was more critical. Classics scholar Moses Finley criticised Durant's The Life of Greece on a number of grounds, including...
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    BC, Routledge, New York City, 2002 (2nd edition) ISBN 0-415-26276-3 Moses Finley, Ancient History, Evidence and Models, Chatto & Windus, (London 1985)...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Solon establishes the basis for Athenian democracy. Classical scholar Moses Finley likewise remarks that Chios, which, according to Theopompus, was the...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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  • neodamōdeis): those who rejoined the δῆμος / dễmos (Deme) of the Perioeci. Moses Finley underscores that the fact helots could serve as hoplites constituted...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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  • Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Harris, W. V. (2013-01-01), "Politics in the Ancient World and Politics", Moses Finley and Politics, BRILL, pp. 107–122, doi:10.1163/9789004261693_009, ISBN 978-90-04-26169-3...
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  • Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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  • Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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  • Cambridge in 1958. He spent time as a graduate student, much influenced by Moses Finley, but left before completing his doctorate for an assistant lectureship...
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  • Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Imperial policy towards it. As in the case of the alimenta, scholars like Moses Finley and Paul Veyne have considered the idea that a foreign trade policy underlay...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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    Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus...
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