The Ancient City (Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges)

A classic work about religion, law, and governance in pre-history, and how those structures formed the Greece and Rome we know.

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"Two things about the past are simultaneously true. First, that men and women of history, even distant history, were not, in their essence, different from us. The nature of man does not change. Second, that the past is a foreign country, often a wholly alien country. The Ancient City, a reconstruction of the development of Greek and Roman social organization in pre-history, certainly shows the latter. Whether the claims of this book are entirely correct, I am not sure. Nonetheless, this is a thought-provoking and mind-expanding work, which attempts to view history through reality rather than ideology, a refreshing change from most modern history writing. . . ."