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The Ancient City

The Ancient City
Fourth English edition, 1882
AuthorFustel de Coulanges
Original titleLa Cité Antique
TranslatorWillard Small
LanguageFrench
GenreHistory
Publication date
1864
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1877
Pages522 (first edition)
Original text
La Cité Antique at French Wikisource
TranslationThe Ancient City at Internet Archive

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws and Institutions of Greece and Rome (French: La Cité antique), published in 1864, is the most famous book of the French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889). Taking inspiration from René Descartes,[1] and based on texts of ancient historians and poets, Fustel investigates the origins of the most archaic institutions in the Greco-Roman world.

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