Rome reborn on western shores : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic /
Shalev, Eran,1970-
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A revolutionary language: history and the classics in the age of revolution -- Britannia corrupt: the British empire in the revolutionary classical imagination -- "Judge the future by the past": the varieties of historical consciousness in revolutionary America -- Taking the toga: American patriots performing antiquity -- Cato americanus: classical pseudonyms and the ratification of the federal constitution -- "The pen of the historian, or the imagination of the poet": the revolution's history classicized -- Epilogue: from republic to empire: beyond 1776.
Political science
Political culture
Civilization, Classical
Classical literature