TY - BOOK AU - Fustel de Coulanges TI - La Cité Antique: Étude sur Le Culte, Le Droit, Les Institutions de la Grèce et de Rome AV - JC PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Cities and towns, Ancient KW - Greece -- Politics and government KW - Rome -- Politics and government KW - Civilization, Greco-Roman N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancient_City; Release date is 2005-05-01; Produced by Anne Soulard, Tiffany Vergon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "La Cité Antique" by Fustel de Coulanges is a historical study published in 1864. This groundbreaking work explores how religion and ancestor worship shaped the earliest institutions of ancient Greece and Rome. Fustel traces how family beliefs and domestic rituals evolved into larger social structures, ultimately giving birth to the city-state itself. He argues that private property, laws, and political organization all have religious origins, and examines how social revolutions transformed these ancient systems until Christianity's arrival changed everything. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8074 ER -