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Edited and revised by J. W. Jamieson

The Ancient European Religion of Heredity and the Family
The Importance of the Lineage
The Sacred Hearth Fire
Marriage and Procreation
Kinship and Property
Moral Law
Gens, Phratry, Tribe and Nation
The Domestic RReligion as the Moral Foundation of the Ancient City-State ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

A New Work making the "Ancient City" Understandable to the Modern Reader
Too often our modern world sees little more than its own preoccupations and motivations in the old and even the ancient. Feelings based on heredity, family and race are taboo in modernist credo, however for pre-Christian Italic and Greek populations religious feeling was certainly based on these things and (although increasingly reoriented during Imperial times) so was their perception of the state. "Family, Kin and City-State: The Racial Underpinning of Ancient Greece and Rome" is a new work that follows very closely the text of Fustel de Coulange's great and famous work "The Ancient City" but shortens it in some places and and in others brings out Fustel de Coulanges's primarly discussion, now generally swept under some contemporary carpet or left unrecognised, which concerns the neglected keystone of ancient Graeco-Italic religiosity: that the Olympians were not the only source of religion in ancient Greece and Rome. More important to the families which made up so many City-States was the worship of the lineage, symbolized by the sacred hearth fire and duty to the ancestors; 'shades' who famously depended solely upon living descendents for their continued succur and for whom the breeding of worthy descendents was a duty. Includes: The Importance of the Lineage; The Sacred Hearth Fire; Marriage and Procreation; Kinship and Property; Moral Law; Gens, Phratry, Tribe and Nation; The Domestic Religion as the Moral Foundation of the Ancient City-State.

Strange and Misleading
This work is an insult to the memory of a great scholar, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges.Excerpts from his work *The Ancient City* have been "edited and revised" by someone named J. W. Jamieson, who has added a lot of strange racial theory that cannot be found in the work of Fustel de Coulanges himself.To make matters worse, none of these changes or additions are acknowledged or identified as such in the printed book itself, giving the reader the false impression that the bizarre theories of the "editor" are in fact the views of Fustel de Coulanges.I was truly shocked when I got my copy and quickly returned it to Amazon for a refund.If you're interested in the work of Fustel de Coulanges, read his wonderful *The Ancient City* or his *The Origins of Property in Land*.But don't waste your time with this little volume.Fustel de Coulanges was a brilliant scholar and insightful thinker, and I am saddened that a mangled excerpt from his work--intermingled with unscientific and bizarre racist claims--is being peddled under his name. ... Read more