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Sto caricando le informazioni... The use and abuse of history (edizione 1987)di M. I. Finley
Informazioni sull'operaUso e abuso della storia : il significato, lo studio e la comprensione del passato di M. I. Finley
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a collection of essays on ancient history, the methodology of history and on some additional miscellaneous topics by Moses Finley. I enjoyed the first 6 essays, but the other 6 were just a bit too specialized or dealt with topics which weren't of much interest to me. If you have read Finley before and like his style, this one is worth reading as well. If not, you might want to look at his Ancient Economy, Ancient Politics or Ancient History: Evidence and Models before this one. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Few writers have taught us more about the ancient world than M. I finley. This provocative and wide-ranging collection of his essays contains illuminating discussions of some major issues: the nature of the Spartan state, the development of Greek law, mythological thinking in the Greek historians, utopian ideas old and new. Yet Finley's immense and detailed knowledge of ancient societies is matched by his equally challenging insights into far larger topics of historical technique (can archaeology and anthropology really teach us much about ancient history?), the dangers of easy generalizations (was there ever really a Greek nation?) and the ways in which we all use the past to deal with our present problems (why have political activists from Isocrates to Edmund Burke and F. D. Roosevelt all preached a return to some kind of 'ancestral constitution?) The final chapter considers the boldest question of all: what the classical tradition still has to offer and why it is still worth studying history and the ancient world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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