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The ancient city : a study on the religions, laws, and institutions of Greece and Rome /

Study of Relgious and civil institutions of ancient.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fustel de Coulanges, 1830-1889
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1956.
Series:Doubleday anchor books ; A76.
Subjects:
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Cities and towns > Rome.
Cities and towns, Ancient > Greece.
Rome > Politics and government.
Greece > Politics and government.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Civilisation gréco-romaine.
Villes antiques.
Grèce > Politique et gouvernement.
Rome > Politique et gouvernement.
Villes antiques > Grèce.
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Cities and towns
Cities and towns, Ancient
Politics and government
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Klassieke oudheid.
Steden.
Law, Greek > Antiquities.
Roman law > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Book first : Ancient beliefs : Notions about the soul and death
  • The worship of the dead
  • The sacred fire
  • The domestic religion
  • Book second : The family : Religion was the constituent principle of the ancient family
  • Marriage among the Greeks and Romans
  • The continuity of the family
  • Celibacy forbidden
  • Divorce in case of sterility
  • Inequality between the son and the daughter
  • Adoption and emancipation
  • Kinship
  • What the Romans called agnation
  • The right of property
  • The right of succession : Nature and principle of the right of succession among the ancients
  • The son, not the daughter, inherits
  • Collateral succession
  • Effects of adoption and emancipation
  • Wills were not known originally
  • The right of primogeniture
  • Authority in the family : Principle and nature of paternal power among the ancients
  • Enumeration of the rights composing the paternal power among the ancients
  • Enumeration of the rights composing the paternal power
  • Morals of the ancient family
  • The Gens at Rome and in Greece : What we learn of the Gens from ancient documents -An examination of the opinions that have been offered to explain the Roman Gens
  • The Gens was nothing but the family still holding to its primitive organization and its unity
  • The family (Gens) was at first the only form of society
  • Book third : The city : The Phratry and the Cury
  • the tribe
  • New Religious beliefs : The gods of physical nature
  • Relation of this religion to the development of human society
  • The city is formed
  • The city
  • Urbs
  • Worship of the founder
  • Legend of Eneas
  • The gods of the city
  • The religion of the city : The public meals
  • The festivals and the calender
  • The census
  • Religion in the assembly, in the senate, in the tribunal, in the army
  • The triumph
  • The rituals and the annals
  • Government of the city
  • The king : Religious authority of the king
  • Political authority of the king
  • The magistracy
  • The law
  • The citizen and the stranger
  • Patriotism
  • Exile
  • The municipal spirit
  • Relations between the cities
  • War
  • Peace
  • The alliance of the gods
  • The Roman
  • The Athenian
  • Omnipotence of the state
  • The ancients knew nothing of individual liberty
  • Book fourth : The revolutions : Patricians and clients
  • The plebeians
  • First revolution : The political power is taken from the kings, who still retain their religious authority
  • History of this Revolution at Sparta
  • History of this revolution at Athens
  • History of this revolution at Rome
  • The aristocracy governs the cities
  • Second revolution
  • Changes in the constitution of the family
  • The right of primogeniture disappears
  • The Gens is dismembered
  • The clients become free : What clientship was at first and how it was transformed
  • Clientship disappears at Athens
  • The work of Solon
  • Transformation of clientship at Rome
  • Third revolution
  • Plebs enter the city : General history of this revolution
  • History of this revolution at Athens
  • History of this revolution at Rome
  • Changes in private law
  • Code of the twelve tables
  • Code of Solon
  • The new principle of government
  • The public interest and the suffrage
  • An aristocracy of wealth attempts to establish itself
  • Establishment of the democracy
  • Fourth revolution
  • Rules of the democratic government
  • Examples of the Athenian democracy
  • Rich and poor
  • The democracy falls
  • Popular tyrants
  • Revolutions of Sparta
  • Book fifth : The municipal regime disappears : New beliefs
  • Philosophy changes the principles and rules of politics
  • The Roman conquest : A few words on the origin and population of Rome
  • First aggrandizement of Rome (753
  • 350 B.C.)
  • How Rome acquired empire (350
  • 14 B.C.)
  • Rome everywhere destroys the municipal system
  • The conquered nations successively enter the Roman city
  • Christianity changes the conditions of government.