Books by Moses Finley
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
by Moses Finley
This book’s all about politics. It was the first time I realized that there could be and ought to be an explicit connection between a modern political stance and the ancient history that I was studying. Slavery is a classic case for thinking about those connections. Finley was the first person I had read who looked ancient slavery in the eye and said it was something that was really terrible.
Interviews where books by Moses Finley were recommended
The best books on Ancient History in Modern Life, recommended by Mary Beard
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, talks us through the books that have had the deepest impact on her thinking about the ancient world and explains why studying Classics is absolutely relevant to modern life.
