 Fourth English edition, 1882 | |
| Author | Fustel de Coulanges |
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| Original title | La Cité Antique |
| Translator | Willard Small |
| Language | French |
| Genre | History |
Publication date | 1864 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1877 |
| Pages | 522 (first edition) |
Original text | La Cité Antique at French Wikisource |
| Translation | The Ancient City at Internet Archive |
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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.