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The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, selected and edited by M. I. Finley

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: New York | Publisher: The Viking Press | Year: 1959

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Moses I. Finley (1912-1986), classical scholar, historian, and sociologist. Finley began his academic career at Syracuse University and earned a master's degree in public law from Columbia University. He was briefly associated with the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt School), collaborating with figures such as Max Horkheimer. From 1948 to 1952, he taught at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, while pursuing a Ph.D. in history at Columbia. In the McCarthy era, Finley came under scrutiny for alleged communist affiliations. In 1952, after invoking the Fifth Amendment during questioning about his political associations, he was dismissed from his post at Rutgers. He subsequently moved to the United Kingdom and joined the University of Cambridge, where he served as Professor of Ancient History from 1970 to 1979 and as Master of Darwin College from 1976 to 1982. He was knighted in 1979, appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). ODBN

Translation from Crawley 1874, edited by Finley, of selected passages from the History: Thuc. 1.1-88 (The Beginnings); 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration); 2.47-54 (Athens' Plague); 3.27-50 (The Mitylenian Debate); 3.70-83 (The Stasis at Corcyra); 6.1-93 (The War in Sicily); 7.36-87 (The Sicilian Disaster).

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Translated into English by Richard Crawley

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