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Classica Americana : the Greek and Roman heritage in the United States
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- Creator
- Meyer Reinhold
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1984
- Physical Details
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- 370 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814317448, 9780814317440
- OCLC
- ocm09971043, ocm09971043
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-364) and index.
- The cult of antiquity in America -- The quest for useful knowledge in eighteenth-century America -- Classical influences and eighteenth-century American political thought -- Opponents of classical learning in America during the revolutionary period -- The classics and the quest for virtue in eighteenth-century America -- The silver age of classical studies in America, 1790-1830 -- "A new morning": Edward Everett's contributions to classical learning -- Philhellenism in America in the early national period -- Vergil in the American experience from colonial times to 1882 -- Plutarch's influence in America from colonial times to 1890 -- American visitors to Pompeii, Herculaneum, and paestum in the nineteenth century -- Survey of the scholarship on classical traditions in early America