Carl Richard, author of The Founders and the Classics, Thomas Ricks, author of First Principles: What the Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country, and Caroline Winterer, author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910, explore the influence of the Greeks and Romans on America's founders and ultimately a new nation. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
Carl Richard is professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of several books, including: The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American and Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers.
Thomas Ricks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008 and was on the staff of the Wall Street Journal for 17 years before that. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.
Caroline Winterer is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and the chair of the History Department at Stanford University. Winterer has also curated two exhibits of rare books and artifacts: Ancient Rome & America at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia (2010) and The American Enlightenment at the Stanford Library (2011). She is the author of several books, including The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
- Carl Richard, The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American and Greeks
- Carl Richard, The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation's Thought
- Carl Richard, Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers
- Carl Richard, The Founders and the Bible
- Thomas Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
- Caroline Winterer, American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
- Caroline Winterer, The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900
- Aristotle, Politics
- "Epicurus," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Epicurus Reader
- "Cincinnatus," National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mt. Vernon
- "Cicero," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Cicero, Political Speeches
- "Porcia," Chaucer Name Dictionary
- Joseph Addison, Cato: A Tragedy
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
- Sophocles, Antigone
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
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