
Audiobook of Fustel de Coulanges' The Ancient City (1864). Chapters read, with brief introductions, by Christopher Anadale. Adapted from videos on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPCGA67J8M2JVoH7M4ayFTRDuLteRhL0p Music: Into Oblivion, by Darren Curtis Thumbnail Image: Parthenon. Image by nonbirinonko from Pixabay, pixabay.com/photos/greece-parthenon-temple-ruins-... more
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The rise of Christianity completed the destruction of the social order based on the ancient religion of ancestor worship.
In this final chapter of the book, Fustel catalogs the changes in politics, in worship, in law, and in self-understanding that ... more
In this long chapter Fustel tells the stages of Rome's conquest of the ancient cities.
In every city they conquered, the Romans destroyed whatever remained of the municipal system connected to the old religion.
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Book 5, The Municipal Regime Disappears, begins with this chapter on the role philosophy played in social change.
With Anaxagoras and others came new ideas of divinity, and new principles and rules for political life.
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Book 4 ends with Fustel's account of the path Sparta took through oligarchy and democracy.
In all of Greece, Sparta was the city most torn by revolutions.
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Democracy and equality made the gap between wealth and poverty more noticeable, without redressing it.
The conflict between rich and poor ended in the seizure of property by popular tyrants.
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In this chapter Fustel examines steps the new Athenian democracy took to protect against innovations in the law.
Democracy was a very demanding and time consuming practice as well.
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An interim stage between the old order and democracy, Fustel says, was the attempt by the wealthy class to rule the cities.
Weakened by war, this new aristocracy fell to the fourth revolution and democracy.
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Fustel relates the social reconstruction that followed the overthrow of the old religion and its laws.
Religious sanction for authority was replaced by the new principle of the public interest, and the end of government changed from performing of re... more










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