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 | #247798 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2009-03-23 |  2009-02-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x.90 x6.40l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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|| |In a lucid and readable book, Carl Richard clearly demonstrates the ongoing importance of classicism in the decades before the Civil War in the United States. Focusing on well-established figures in the American political and literary canon, he shows how the i

In a masterful study Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers.

The classics shaped how Americans interpreted developments around them. The example of Athens allowed politicians of the democratic age to espouse classical knowledge without seeming elitist...

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