FINLEY’S STUDIES IN LAND AND CREDIT SIXTY YEARS LATER

Abstract

Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens 500-200 B.C.: The Horos Inscriptions was published by Rutgers University Press in 1952 and was reprinted with a new introduction by Paul Millett by Transaction Books in1985. The book is unlike Finley’s other books, which were based on lectures.The World of Odysseus had its origins in a series of lectures givenat Bryn Mawr College. Democracy Ancient and Modern was based on theMason Welch Gross Lectures given in New Brunswick, New Jersey inApril 1972. 5 The Ancient Economy was the publication of Finley’s SatherLectures given at the University of California, Berkeley in the WinterQuarter of 1972. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology was based on four lectures presented at the College de France in November and December 1978. Politics in the Ancient World was the publication of his Wiles Lectures delivered at the Queen’s University, Belfast in May 1980.8 All of these works were written for the general public and address broad, general topics in Ancient History: there is little detailed analysis of the ancient sources, and the bibliographies in some cases contain few items.