The devil knows Latin
Subtitle: why America needs the classical tradition
By: E. Christian Kopff.
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Classical philology -- Study and teaching -- United States; Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- United States; Classical education -- United States; Classicism -- United States; United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences
Description: For generations scholars treated the United States as a unique country whose cultural history could be studied in isolation from world events and traditions. More recently, writers have shown an increased awareness that American society, far from developing in a protected, ahistorical realm, can be understood only as part of a wider civilization. Now E. Christian Kopff offers an even sharper perspective by viewing America squarely within the classical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome.

For, as Kopff demonstrates convincingly, a truly informed, nuanced view of American culture must rest upon an appreciation of our debt to the classical past.