Thomas Jefferson, the classical world, and early America
By: edited by Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole
Series: Jeffersonian America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press; Thomas Jefferson Foundation ICJS Conferences
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780813931319
Subjects: Knowledge and learning; Political and social views; Classical influences; Civilization; Congresses; Political science; Classicism; History
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole; title: Prologue : the legacy of Rome in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood; title: Ancients, moderns, and the progress of mankind : Thomas Jefferson's classical world / Peter S. Onuf; title: Jefferson and natural morality : classical moral theory, moral sense, and rights / Michael P. Zuckert; title: Classical taste at Monticello : the case of Thomas Jefferson's daughter and granddaughters / Caroline Winterer; title: Jefferson's classical architecture : an American agenda / Richard Guy Wilson; title: George Washington : Cincinnatus or Marcus Aurelius? / Maurie D. McInnis; title: America and ancient and modern Europe / Nicholas P. Cole; title: Aristotle and King Alfred in America / Peter Thompson; title: Jefferson's classical silence, 1774-1776 : historical consciousness and Roman history in the revolutionary South / Eran Shalev; title: Cicero and the classical republican legacy in America / Paul A. Rahe; title: Pericles in America : the founding era and beyond / Jennifer T. Roberts.