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The Ancient City [RARE BOOKS]

The Ancient City [RARE BOOKS]

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The Ancient City describes the society of the cities of Greece and Rome in the earliest stages of their history. It is a description which will be strange to many readers, for it more closely resembles the de- scriptions of those primitive communities that have become familiar to us from the writings of anthro pologists, than it does the classic world we know from painting and literature. Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889) shows that religion was the basis of the civic life of these people-a religion of only dimly understood rites which dominated every aspect of life, every moment of the day, and which was re flected throughout ancient literature-though until this book was written, many of the references to this ancient religion had been either ignored or misunderstood.

The Ancient City was originally published in 1864. "In execution, arrangement, and style, the book was a masterpiece, and it has become a classic of French historical literature," writes James Westfall Thompson in his History of Historical Writing. And while later scholarship has modified the book in many details, if one is interested primarily in the relations. between religion and social forms in antiquity, then, to quote again from Professor Thompson, "perhaps not a single line need be changed in Fustel's book."

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