Sir Moses Finley (Moses Isaac Finkelstein until ca. 1946) brought to the study of ancient society radical new methods and perspectives, opening up expanded horizons through his efforts to revolutionize the study of antiquity.

Sir Moses I. Finley was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations. He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna ...

11/07/1986 · Sir Moses I. Finley, a noted classics scholar at Cambridge University in England who wrote works that were accessible to the general public, is …

15/01/2017 · Moses Finley (1912-1986). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971.

Bio: Sir Moses I. Finley, born Moses Isaac Finkelstein, was an American-born British academic and classical scholar.

Moses I. Finley, Ancient slavery and modern ideology. Cambridge, England; The Viking Press, New York, 1980. 202 pages. Index. $13.95. The author is one of the foremost authorities among modern historians on slavery among the Greeks and Romans. This book contains four lectures he delivered at College de France in 1978. The intent of the lectures is to give a