Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to George W. Bush

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181 Notes Introduction 1. Lester J. Cappon, ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters, 2 vols. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959), 2:549. 2. Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters, 2:551. 3. Juvenal 6.293. 4. Cf. Paul A. Rahe, Republics Ancient and Modern, 3 vols. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 3:201–3. 5. E.g., Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 1967), 22–26. 6. These essays were collected to form Reinhold’s book Classica Americana (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984). 7. See, among others, Carl J. Richard, The Founders and the Classics (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994); Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); Rahe, Republics. 8. Elaine K. Swift, The Making of an American Senate (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996). 9. Charles A. Kromkowski, Recreating the American Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Meckler.ClassicalAntiquity 5/25/06 12:07 PM Page 181 182 Notes to pp. 3–11 10. The tension between biblical and classical influences on American thought in this period is discussed by John C. Shields, The American Aeneas (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001). 11. Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters, 2:335; cf. Richard, Founders, 83. 12. Lee T. Pearcy, The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2005). 13. I. F . Stone, The Trial of Socrates (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988). The book, which spent nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction , was not reviewed in either Classical Philology or the American Journal of Philology, the two most important professional classics journals in the United States. For a review by an academic classicist that dealt as much with Stone’s career as a journalist as it did with his view of Socrates, see Donald Kagan’s comments in Commentary 85.3 (1988): 72–77. 14. Cf. Sara Rappe’s review of Mark L. McPheran, The Religion of Socrates (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996), in Classical Philology 94 (1999): 99–103, esp. 101. 15. Congressional Record, 107th Cong., 1st Sess., 2001, vol. 147, S. 7557– 58. 16. See the essay in this volume by Robert F . Maddox. 17. John Finnis, “ ‘Shameless Acts’ in Colorado: Abuse of Scholarship in Constitutional Cases,” Academic Questions 7.4 (1994): 10–41; Martha Nussbaum, “Platonic Love and Colorado Law: The Relevance of Ancient Greek Norms to Modern Sexual Controversies,” Virginia Law Review 80 (1994): 1515–1651; cf. Daniel A. Farber, “Adjudication of Things Past: Reflections on History as Evidence,” Hastings Law Journal 49 (1998): 1009–38, esp.1013–15. In 1996, the United States Supreme Court, in Romer v. Evans, upheld lower court rulings finding the Colorado amendment unconstitutional. 18. Lawrence W. Reed, “Are We Going the Way of Rome?” (pamphlet published by the Mackinac Center, Midland, Michigan, 1994, based on a lecture originally given in 1979); Bruce Bartlett, “How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome,” Cato Journal 14.2 (1994): 287–306; Richard J. Maybury, Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Today (Placerville, Calif.: Bluestocking Press, 1995). 19. Martin Bernal, Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vol. 1 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987); Shelley Haley, “Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming , Re-empowering,” in Feminist Theory and the Classics, edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin (New York: Routledge, 1993), 23–43. 20. Victor Davis Hanson, The Wars of the Ancient Greeks and Their Invention of Western Military Culture (London: Cassell, 1999); idem, The Soul of Battle (New York: Free Press, 1999). 21. See George A. Kennedy, “Afterword: An Essay on Classics in America since the Yale Report,” in Reinhold, Classica Americana, 325–51; Pearcy, Grammar of Civility, 43–83. 22. On Everett and Felton, see the essay in this volume by Caroline Winterer . On Hoar, see my essay in this volume. Meckler.ClassicalAntiquity 5/25/06 12:07 PM Page 182 Notes to pp. 11–14 183 23. On Westermann, see the essay in this volume by John Milton Cooper, Jr. On Reinhold and Lewis, see the essay by Daniel P. Tompkins. Features of Donald Kagan’s Cold War interpretation of Thucydides are discussed in Lawrence Tritle’s essay, while Neil G. Robertson’s essay examines Leo Strauss. See also Donald Alexander Downs...