The Ancient City
Subtitle: A Study on the Religion, Laws and Institutions of Greece and Rome
Publisher: DoubleDay
Published: January 1956
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: La cité antique
ISBN-13: 9780385092074
First sentence: DOWN to the latest times in the history of Greece and Rome we find the common people clinging to thoughts and usages which certainly dated from a very distant past, and which enable us to discover what notions man entertained at first regarding his own nature, his soul, and the mystery of death.