The Ancient City 15 The Gens at Rome and Greece

⁣"The gens was not an association of families; it was the family itself."


⁣0:00 Problem of the Gens
4:46 Ancient Writers
12:06 Modern Theories
20:05 Gens = Family
25:55 Footnote: Agnates
27:35 Explanatory Power
28:59 Footnote: Names
32:35 Only Form of Society
37:07 Imagining Their World
39:15 Slave & Client