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The Ancient City - A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Ancient City - A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Paperback, New Ed)
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Originally published in 1864 as La Cite Antique, this remarkable
work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of
Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a
fraction of the materials available to today's classical scholar,
Fustel de Coulanges fashioned a complete picture of life in the
ancient city, resulting in a book impressive today as much for the
depth of its portrait as for the thesis it presents. In The Ancient
City, Fustel argues that primitive religion constituted the
foundation of all civic life. Developing his comparisons between
belifes and laws, Fustel covers such topis as rites and festivals;
marriage and the family; divorce, death, and burial; and political
and legal structures. "Religion," the suthor states, "constituted
the Greek and Roman family, established marriage and paternal
authority, fixed the order of relationship, and consecrated the
right of propery, and the right of inheritance. This same religion,
after having enlarged and extended the family, formed a stull
larger association, the city, and reigned in that as it had reigned
in the family. From it came all the institutions, as well as the
private law, of the ancients." As Arnaldo Momigliano and S. C.
Humphreys note in their foreword, The Ancient City rightly takes
its place alongside a number of pioneering works of the late
nineteenth century that offered radically new inerpretations of
ancient society and culture. Indeed, modern anthropology, as well
as classics, owes a debt to Fustel de Coulanges, whose early
insights in The Ancient City remain valid and provocative today.
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