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by Numa D. de Coulanges; Fustel de Coulanges; Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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Originally published in 1864 as La Cit 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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DOWN to the latest times in the history of Greece and Rome we find the common people clinging to thoughts and usages which certainly dated from a very distant past, and which enable us to discover what notions man entertained at first regarding his own nature, his soul, and the mystery of death.

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  • Title The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
  • Author Numa D. de Coulanges; Fustel de Coulanges; Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Good Condition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1980-05-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780801823046 / 0801823048
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.33 x 0.83 in (20.35 x 13.54 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Cities and towns, Ancient, Rome - Politics and government
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79003703
  • Dewey Decimal Code 938

About the author

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges was born in Paris in 1830 and died in 1889. Educated at the Ecole Normale Suprieure, he late became its director. Many great French historians studies with him, and his ideas had influence, beyond the field of history proper, on French sociology and anthropology. His masterwork, The Ancient City, is available exclusively from Johns Hopkins.

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