Author: Charles W. L. Launspach

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781330412169

Excerpt from State and Family in Early Rome The present treatise deals only with Rome in its infancy and adolescence. A considerable portion of that period is prehistoric. Its reconstruction - faulty at the best - demands a strong effort of synthesis; and whilst the subject is calculated to stimulate the imagination, the paucity of the available authentic material has lent itself to many interpretations provocative of controversy. The central idea that has furnished my text is that the early Roman State was a conscious imitation of the ancient Gens or ancient Family, that its theory of Government was founded upon the relations existing between kinsmen, and that these, again, were determined by religious notions which later became transformed through developments within the City and external influences. To call such a State, in its earliest days, either a democracy, an autocracy, or an aristocracy might be verbally true; but it would be substantially false. It is not explainable without reference to the religious notions of the Romans before they came under the direct influence of the Greek theogony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.