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The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome [Audiobook]
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The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B091J9BXM8 | 2021 | 15 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 852 MB
Author: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Narrator: Charlton Griffin
One of the most remarkable historical works of the 19th century came from the pen of French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, a native of Paris. This amazing analysis of family and religious life among the ancient Greeks and Romans is the key to understanding ancient Mediterranean civilizations. The story begins in the misty period of the Bronze Age as the Indo-Europeans began to filter down into the Italian and Greek peninsulas.
They brought with them a patriarchy that was based on ancestor worship and the veneration of hearth gods…the sacred fire which bonded family and state. As time passed, this hearth worship became codified and extremely complex. For thousands of years, there was no distinction whatsoever between religion and law. They were one and the same, even after the establishment of cities.