Title: The Devil Knows Latin
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Civilization, Civilization, Classical, Classical Civilization, Classical education, Classical influences, Classical philology, Classicism, Study and teaching, Intellectual life, Study and teaching (Higher)
Places: United States
LC classification: PA78.U6 K67 1999