The Ancient City 18 How the City Was Formed

⁣"The city was not an assemblage of individuals; it was a confederatrion of several groups, which were established before it..."

Book 3 Ch 3 of Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City (1864)


⁣0:00 Federation of Families, Phratries, Curies
1:55 Independence Maintained
3:40 Evidence from Ancient Usages
4:33 City Not Composed of Individuals
6:22 Example: How Athens Was Formed
11:14 Two Lessons
11:49 Power of Belief
14:03 Growth of Society
15:15 Pattern Followed with Colonies