The World of Odysseus

The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey --a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.

M.I.芬利（M.I.Finley，1912–1986），著名古典学家、剑桥大学古代史教授。17岁获得哥伦比亚大学法学硕士学位，之后转向古代史研究，1954年接受剑桥大学的邀请，前往英国。他将文化、经济和社会学范式运用于古代世界研究，对传统古典学方法形成了有益补充，代表作品有《奥德修斯的世界》《古代经济》《古代世界的政治》。因其卓越的学术贡献，芬利于1979年受封爵士。