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Date:
Fri, 4 Jun 1993
From: Barb Phillips
Subject:
Classics the Founding Fathers Referred To When Writing the
Constitution
Our
Latin teacher is presenting a paper this fall and is in the process
of compiling a list of the classics our founding fathers referred to
when they wrote the constitution. She would like to inquire if
anyone can assist her in compiling this list.
Date:
Fri, 4 Jun 1993
From:
David Meadows
Subject:
Re: Classics the Founding Fathers Referred To When Writing the
Constitution
Your teacher might want to check out the following: Richard Gummere
*The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition* (Cambridge,
1963) Richard Gummere *Seven Wise Men of Colonial America*
(Cambridge, 1967) R. Rowland (ed.) *Vergil's Rome and the American
Experience* ... this came out in 1987; it might be listed under the
Vergilian Society or under *Augustan Age Occasional Papers no.1* M.
Reinhold. *Classica Americana* non vidi, but the title and the
author seems to suggest it is in the ballpark, if nothing else.
Sorry I didn't write down the full bibliographic info on this one.
Date:
Sat, 5 Jun 1993
From:
Jenny Roberts
Subject:
Re: Classics the Founding Fathers Referred To When Writing the
Constitution
In
addition to Meyer Reinhold's Classica Americana: The Greek and Roman
Heritage in the United States (Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit,
1984) there is a good article by Richard Gummere, author of The
American Colonial Mind, entitled "The Classical Ancestry of the
United States Constitution," American Quarterly 14 (1961),
3-18, but, most important, see Reinhold's The Classick Pages:
Classical Reading of Eighteenth Century Americans (Univ. Park, Pa.,
1975). Also: Paul Rahe, Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical
Republicanism and the American Tradition (Chapel Hill, 1992) George
Kennedy,"Classical Influence on the Federalist," in John
Eadie's Classical Traditions in Early America (Ann Arbor, 1976) R A
Ames and H C Montgomery, "The Influence of Rome on the American
Constitution," Classical Journal 30 (19324-35), 19-27 Other
literature is cited in the bibliography to Classica Americana; in
addition, try the index to Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the
Federal Convention of 1787 (New Haven and London, 1937). In spring
Harvard will publish Carl Richard's The Founders and the Classics.
Date:
Sat, 5 Jun 1993
From:
Owen Cramer
Subject:
Re: Classics the Founding Fathers Referred To When Writing the
Constitution
Add
to the good bibliography so far supplied Forrest McDonald's _Novus
Ordo Seclorum_, 1985, a good study of the intellectual origins of
the Constitution that makes the point that we really ought to know
Latin as well as these guys did to understand what they read, wrote
and thought.
From:
robert cape
Subject:
Re: Classics the Founding Fathers Referred To When Writing
Another
book for your Latin teacher: Wiltshire, Susan Ford, 1941- Greece,
Rome, and the Bill of Rights Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,
c1992. Series title: Oklahoma series in classical culture v. 15
Date:
Mon, 7 Jun 1993
From:
Robin
Subject:
Re: Classics the Founding Fathers Referred To When Writing the
Constitution
May
I add that most of the books by Gary Wills (ex-classicist) on the
founding fathers will provide much information on their reading of
Greek and Roman authors, as will his book on Lincoln, which i
haven't read yet as I'm waiting for the paperback. You might start
with Wills' study of Jefferson, Inventing America.
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