This spring I’m teaching a course for the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium (CVEC) called “America and the Classics.” The eight-week course will focus primarily on the influence of the classics on the Founders, with some illustrated lectures on Greek Revival architecture and other American uses of classical iconography. Our textbook will be Carl J. Richard’s Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (Rowman and Littlefield 2009), with supplemental primary readings.
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