This Day in History - May 20: On this day in 1912, Moses Finley was born in New York City. After studying law, during the McCarthy era, Finley moved to England and taught classics at Cambridge University. He died on June 23, in 1986.
Among other books, Finley wrote The World of Odysseus, The Ancient Economy, Politics in the Ancient World, and Land, Debt, and the Man of Property in Classical Athens.
Also on this day in history, in 1957, classical scholar Gilbert Murray (b. January 2, 1866) died.
In ancient history, this may have been the day the first Council of Nicaea started in 325 A.D. See: The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicaea.
Related:
- The Life and Work of Homer
- The Council of Nicaea and the Arrian Controversy
- Democracy Then and Now
- Classical Greece
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