The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment.

Richard, Carl J.:

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Published by Harvard University Press. 01.04.1994., 1994

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VIII, 295 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - 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, pastoral-ism, 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. ISBN 9780674314252 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 540 15,9 x 2,5 x 24,1 cm, Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket.

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The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment.
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Richard, Carl J.:
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Harvard University Press. 01.04.1994.
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1994
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