Founders and the Classics Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment

Name: Founders and the Classics Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780674314269

ISBN-10: 0674314263

ISBN-13: 9780674314269

Edition: 1994

Authors: Carl J. Richard

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Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalization and speculation, the influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book-the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. Carl J. Richard begins by examining how eighteenth-century social institutions in general and the educational system in particular conditioned the founders to venerate the classics. He then explores the founders' various uses of classical symbolism, models, "antimodels," mixed government theory,…

Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction



The Classical Conditioning of the Founders



Symbolism



Models



Antimodels



Mixed Government and Classical Pastoralism



Philosophy



The Myth of Classical Decline


Conclusion


Notes


Index