Thomas Jefferson, the classical world, and early America [electronic resource] / edited by Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole.
Series: Jeffersonian AmericaPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: x, 314 p. : illSubject(s):- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views -- Congresses
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Knowledge and learning -- Congresses
- Classicism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses
- United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences -- Congresses
- 973.4/6092 22
- E332.2 .T477 2011eb
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"This volume comprises a selection of essays presented at a conference held at the American Academy in Rome on October 13-14, 2008 ... "--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole -- Prologue : the legacy of Rome in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- Ancients, moderns, and the progress of mankind : Thomas Jefferson's classical world / Peter S. Onuf -- Jefferson and natural morality : classical moral theory, moral sense, and rights / Michael P. Zuckert -- Classical taste at Monticello : the case of Thomas Jefferson's daughter and granddaughters / Caroline Winterer -- Jefferson's classical architecture : an American agenda / Richard Guy Wilson -- George Washington : Cincinnatus or Marcus Aurelius? / Maurie D. McInnis -- America and ancient and modern Europe / Nicholas P. Cole -- Aristotle and King Alfred in America / Peter Thompson -- Jefferson's classical silence, 1774-1776 : historical consciousness and Roman history in the revolutionary South / Eran Shalev -- Cicero and the classical republican legacy in America / Paul A. Rahe -- Pericles in America : the founding era and beyond / Jennifer T. Roberts.
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