Fustel de Coulanges
historical figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
M. Fustel de Coulanges · the author of 'La Cité Antique'
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
French historian, author of 'La Cité Antique', on ancient family and ancestor worship.
Fustel de Coulanges can doubt, by the worship of ancestors.
Fustel de Coulanges was the first modern writer to bring into full light, in his brilliant book ‘La Cité Antique,’ the hitherto little observed importance of the private or family worship of the Greeks and Romans.
Fustel de Coulanges, without referring to the custom of ‘Mother-law,’ certainly seems to me to express himself occasionally as if he thought that all the characteristics of the so-called Patriarchal Family were created by the worship of ancestors which was ever celebrated in the recesses of the household;