• Thomas Jefferson, the classical world, and early America
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: ColeNicholas, 1978-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: OnufPeter S,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Charlottesville
    Published: University of Virginia Press;
    Year of Publication: 2011
    Description: 1 online resource (x, 314 p.)ill. :
    Series: Jeffersonian America
    Subject: Political science - History - United States - 18th century -
    Subject: Classicism - History - United States - 18th century -
    Subject: United States - Civilization -
    Personal Subject: Jefferson - Thomas - Knowledge and learning -
    Personal Subject: Jefferson - Thomas - Political and social views -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813931821/
    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
    ISBN: 9780813931821electronic bk.
    ISBN: 0813931827electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780813931319hbk.
    ISBN: 0813931312hbk.
    Content Note: Introduction / Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole -- Prologue : the legacy of Rome in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- Ancients,moderns, and the progress of mankind : Thomas Jefferson's classical world / Peter S. Onuf -- Jefferson and natural morality : classical moraltheory, moralsense, and rights / Michael P. Zuckert -- Classical taste at Monticello : the case of Thomas Jefferson's daughter and granddaughters / Caroline Winterer -- Jefferson's classical architecture : an American agenda / Richard Guy Wilson -- George Washington : Cincinnatus or Marcus Aurelius? / Maurie DMcInnis -- America and ancient and modern Europe / Nicholas P. Cole -- Aristotle and King Alfred inAmerica / Peter Thompson -- Jefferson's classical silence, 1774-1776 : historical consciousness andRoman history in the revolutionary South / Eran Shalev -- Cicero and the classical republican legacy in America / Paul A. Rahe -- Pericles in America : the founding era and beyond / Jennifer T. Roberts
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