The Culture of Classicism
Subtitle: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801867996
Subjects: Education; History of ideas, intellectual history; History of specific subjects; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Institutions Of Higher Education; Intellectual History; United States - General; History - General History; History: World; USA; Ancient - General; Education / Higher; Universities and colleges; Civilization; United States; Organizations & Institutions; 19th century; Classical education; Classicism
First sentence: Next to Christianity, the central intellectual project in America before the late nineteenth century was classicism.