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What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity

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In this course, you’ll explore the ethos of classicism that permeated the founders’ era and how the American revolutionaries identified with the ancient Roman republic.

You’ll dig deeply into the classical thought of five of the iconic founders, and you’ll learn how the Founding Fathers created a radically new political model based in the conception of equality.

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What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Antiquity Erupts in 18th-Century America

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Antiquity Erupts in 18th-Century America

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: A Republic of Farmers: America and Early Rome

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A Republic of Farmers: America and Early Rome

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: The Dangers of Empire: Rome and Britain

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The Dangers of Empire: Rome and Britain

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Are We Rome? America’s Conflicted Identity

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Are We Rome? America’s Conflicted Identity

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: American Ambivalence toward Ancient Greece

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American Ambivalence toward Ancient Greece

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: The Founders on Carthage and Germania

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The Founders on Carthage and Germania

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: The Lure of Ancient Egypt for a New America

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The Lure of Ancient Egypt for a New America

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: George Washington: The American Cincinnatus

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George Washington: The American Cincinnatus

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: John Adams: The American Cicero

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John Adams: The American Cicero

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Thomas Jefferson’s Total World of Classicism

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Thomas Jefferson’s Total World of Classicism

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: James Madison’s Classical Vision of Government

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James Madison’s Classical Vision of Government

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Benjamin Franklin’s Practical Uses for Antiquity

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Benjamin Franklin’s Practical Uses for Antiquity

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Revolutionary Lessons from Roman Histories

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Revolutionary Lessons from Roman Histories

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Classical Ideas in an Enlightenment Age

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Classical Ideas in an Enlightenment Age

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Classicism and the Christianity of the Founders

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Classicism and the Christianity of the Founders

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: The Ancient Roots of the US Constitution

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The Ancient Roots of the US Constitution

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: How the Aeneid Became America’s Founding Myth

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How the Aeneid Became America’s Founding Myth

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: How American Women Used the Classical World

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How American Women Used the Classical World

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: How Greece and Rome Shaped American Slavery

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How Greece and Rome Shaped American Slavery

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Native Americans and the Classical World

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Native Americans and the Classical World

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: The Classical City in America

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The Classical City in America

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: America’s Classical Homes and Gardens

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America’s Classical Homes and Gardens

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: Classical Strokes in American Painting

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Classical Strokes in American Painting

What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity: The Afterlives of Antiquity in America

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The Afterlives of Antiquity in America

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