The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States

by Carl J Richard (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $76.60

  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.