Karl Marx and Classical Antiquity: A Bibliographic Introduction.(Bibliography)

From: Helios | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: McCarthy, George E. | Copyright information

The last two decades of the twentieth century have seen a flood of works on Marx and classical antiquity. This essay will provide a short bibliographic introduction to the range of issues and questions discussed in some of these writings. The authors of this journal issue nicely add to these important analyses: Neville Morley and Niall McKeown take the position that the traditional study of classical history and economics has been inadequate and that Marxist analysis is crucial to a...

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