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Roman mentalities and political institutions.
CIZEC Eugen.

Roman mentalities and political institutions.

Fayard
€10,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25457
Format 11 x 18
Détails 400 p., paperback.
Publication Paris, 1990
Etat Occasion
ISBN 9782012788008
By its longevity, by the extent of the domination exercised, by the durability of the mark imprinted on the whole of Europe, ancient Rome remains the matrix, the almost absolute reference of our civilizations. It did not originally have the assets of power, natural resources or weight of numbers. Without a doubt, it is the solidity, and therefore the duration, of its rules of social life - the institutions - which made the difference with other peoples. If time has necessarily made them evolve - sometimes significantly -, the civic spirit, the very strong attachment to collective values, has for a very long time kept in the minds an intact vigor: it is indeed in the mental tooling that lies the explanation of Roman power, in the way in which the citizens saw themselves in the city and conceived their own role there, in what they judged essential to transmit to their posterity.
By its longevity, by the extent of the domination exercised, by the durability of the mark imprinted on the whole of Europe, ancient Rome remains the matrix, the almost absolute reference of our civilizations. It did not originally have the assets of power, natural resources or weight of numbers. Without a doubt, it is the solidity, and therefore the duration, of its rules of social life - the institutions - which made the difference with other peoples. If time has necessarily made them evolve - sometimes significantly -, the civic spirit, the very strong attachment to collective values, has for a very long time kept in the minds an intact vigor: it is indeed in the mental tooling that lies the explanation of Roman power, in the way in which the citizens saw themselves in the city and conceived their own role there, in what they judged essential to transmit to their posterity.