“The Ancient City” is a lengthy, very well thought out and researched book about the differences between Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, however it was mostly on their similarities. It was written apparently in 1873, and was republished in 2001. The author, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, was a French historian who was born in 1830 and died in 1889, and was a history professor at the faculty letter of Strasbourg, where he later wrote the book. He also wrote two theses, of which he called “Quid Vestae cultus in institutis veterum privatis publicisque valuerit” (“The Power of Why do you wear the service of the public or private institutions of the ancients”) and “Polybe, ou la Grèce conquise par les Romains” (“Polybius, or Greece conquered by the Romans”), both of which were written in approximately 1858.
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De Coulanges used references and sources that range from Euripides to Plutarch, Virgil to Cicero, and many more ancient historians and philosophers. De Coulanges used these sources to help support his descriptions of what life was like for the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans in the mid-BC era (ranging from approximately 650 BC to approximately 476 AD). He claims that first there was a shared religion of praising their ancestors and the dead, as well as the religious practice of always keeping a fire lit all year long and praying to it for every occasion, which is a very interesting practice; there was also the religions of the family, which de Coulanges got very in depth with. Later, he claims that the ancient Greeks eventually began creating deities based on the natural elements. For example, they named their master of their households fire “Vestia,” now known as Hestia. When Rome conquered Greece, they adopted the Greek gods and remade and renamed them as their own, a fact many now know as
De Coulanges used references and sources that range from Euripides to Plutarch, Virgil to Cicero, and many more ancient historians and philosophers. De Coulanges used these sources to help support his descriptions of what life was like for the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans in the mid-BC era (ranging from approximately 650 BC to approximately 476 AD). He claims that first there was a shared religion of praising their ancestors and the dead, as well as the religious practice of always keeping a fire lit all year long and praying to it for every occasion, which is a very interesting practice; there was also the religions of the family, which de Coulanges got very in depth with. Later, he claims that the ancient Greeks eventually began creating deities based on the natural elements. For example, they named their master of their households fire “Vestia,” now known as Hestia. When Rome conquered Greece, they adopted the Greek gods and remade and renamed them as their own, a fact many now know as