About “The Ancient City”
The Ancient City is a 1864 book by the French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. It explores the religion, laws, and institutions of ancient Greece and Rome. Fustel was inspired by René Descartes and used texts from ancient historians and poets to examine the earliest systems of governance and belief in the Greco-Roman world. The work is considered a foundational text in the study of ancient civilizations. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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