The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition

Argues that the culture of the United States should be viewed as part of the Greco-Roman Classical tradition, rather than as something new

E. Christian Kopff has earned degrees from Haverford College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1973 and lived for some of the past 25 years in Rome as teacher at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. He is editor of a critical edition of Euripides' Bacchae (Teubner, 1982), and the author of over 100 articles and reviews on scholarly and popular subjects.