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The Founders and the Classics - Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Paperback, New edition)
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The Founders and the Classics - Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Paperback, New edition)
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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; pastoralism, and philosophy, revealing in detail the
formative influence exerted by the classics, both directly and
through the mediation of Whig and American perspectives. In this
analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal
basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the
founders' conception of human nature, their understanding of
virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand
universal scheme. At the same time, we learn how the classics
inspired obsessive fear of conspiracies against liberty, which
poisoned relations between Federalists and Republicans. The shrewd
ancients who molded Western civilization still have much to teach
us, Richard suggests. His account of the critical role they played
in shaping our nation and our lives provides a valuable lesson in
the transcendent power of the classics.
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