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Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization — John Shaqi

Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilizationMorgan, Lewis Henry

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Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Name: Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization
Author: Morgan, Lewis Henry

Morgan, Lewis Henry

Civilization; Political anthropology; Prehistoric peoples; Social evolution; Social structure; Sociology

Early Condition of Grecian Tribes.—Organized into
    Gentes.—Changes in the Character of the Gens.—Necessity for
    a Political System.—Problem to be Solved.—The Formation of a
    State.—Grote’s Description of the Grecian Gentes.—Of their
    Phratries and Tribes.—Rights, Privileges and Obligations of
    the Members of the Gens.—Similar to those of the Iroquois
    Gens.—The Office of Chief of the Gens.—Whether Elective or
    Hereditary.—The Gens the Basis of the Social System.—Antiquity
    of the Gentile Lineage.—Inheritance of Property.—Archaic and
    Final Rule.—Relationships between the Members of a Gens.—The
    Gens the Center of Social and Religious Influence.                215


    CHAPTER IX.

    THE GRECIAN PHRATRY, TRIBE AND NATION.

    The Athenian Phratry.—How Formed.—Definition of
    Dikæarchus.—Objects chiefly Religious.—The Phratriarch.—The
    Tribe.—Composed of Three Phratries.—The Phylo Basileus.—The
    Nation.—Composed of Four Tribes.—Boulê, or Council of
    Chiefs.—Agora, or Assembly of the People.—The Basileus.—Tenure
    of the Office.—Military and Priestly Functions.—Civil
    Functions not shown.—Governments of the Heroic Age, Military
    Democracies.—Aristotle’s Definition of a Basileus.—Later
    Athenian Democracy.—Inherited from the Gentes.—Its Powerful
    Influence upon Athenian Development.                              235


    CHAPTER X.

    THE INSTITUTION OF GRECIAN POLITICAL SOCIETY.

    Failure of the Gentes as a Basis of Government.—Legislation
    of Theseus.—Attempted Substitution of Classes.—Its
    Failure.—Abolition of the Office of Basileus.—The
    Archonship.—Naucraries and Trittyes.—Legislation of Solon.—The
    Property Classes.—Partial Transfer of Civil Power from the
    Gentes to the Classes.—Persons unattached to any Gens.—Made
    Citizens.—The Senate.—The Ecclesia.—Political Society
    partially attained.—Legislation of Cleisthenes.—Institution
    of Political Society.—The Attic Deme or Township.—Its
    Organization and Powers.—Its Local Self-government.—The Local
    Tribe or District.—The Attic Commonwealth.—Athenian Democracy.    256


    CHAPTER XI.

    THE ROMAN GENS.

    Italian Tribes Organized in Gentes.—Founding of
    Rome.—Tribes Organized into a Military Democracy.—The
    Roman Gens.—Definition of a Gentilis by Cicero.—By
    Festus.—By Varro.—Descent in Male Line.—Marrying out of the
    Gens.—Rights, Privileges and Obligations of the Members of a
    Gens.—Democratic Constitution of Ancient Latin Society.—Number
    of Persons in a Gens.                                             277


    CHAPTER XII.

    THE ROMAN CURIA, TRIBE AND POPULUS.

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