The Classical Tradition in Antebellum America (The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, And the Antebellum United States) (Book Review) - Modern Age

The Classical Tradition in Antebellum America (The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, And the Antebellum United States) (Book Review)

By Modern Age

  • Release Date: 2010-09-22
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

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The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States by Carl J. Richard (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009) With The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States, Carl J. Richard has cemented his place as America's premier intellectual historian. His investigation of the cultural history of antebellum America is as thorough and persuasive as the case he made for the role of the classics in the Revolutionary period in The Founders and the Classics.(1) By demonstrating the centrality of the classics in the cultural and political life of the republic, he has transformed our understanding of the American way of life and made a compelling case for the degree requirements for the Ph.D. in American history to include firsthand knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin.

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