Author: Finley, M. I. (Moses I.) [1912-1986]; editor:
Title: Studies in Ancient Society
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1974). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, x,324 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Copnsists of papers originally published in the journal 'Past & Present'. Includes: 1. Athenian demagogues / M.I. Finley -- 2. Aristotle and economic analysis / M.I. Finley --3. Rome and the class struggle in the Greek states 200-146 B.C. / John Briscoe --4. Roman mob / P.A. Brunt --5. Elite mobility in the Roman Empire / Keith Hopkins --6. Social mobility in the Early Roman Empire: the evidence of the imperial freedmen and slaves / P.R. C. Weaver --7. Legal privilege in the Roman Empire / Peter Garnsey --8. Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic / E.L. Bowie --9. Why were the early Christians persecuted? / G.E.M. de Ste Croix -- 10. Why were the early Christians persecuted? An amendment / A.N. Sherwin-White --11. Why were the early Christians persecuted? A rejoinder / G.E.M. de Ste Croix --1 2. Failure of the persecutions in the Roman Empire / W.H.C. Frend --13. Roman colonate / A.H.M. Jones --14. Peasant revolts in Late Roman Gaul and Spain / E.A. Thompson.

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece, Rome, Roman Empire, History, Historiography, , ,