The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America

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173 INDEX Academia Virginiensis et Oxoniensis, 45 Academy and College of Philadelphia, 54 Acharnians (Aristophanes), in Philadelphia , 77, 78 Achilles, 137 Adam (first man), 104 Adams, John: as student of Classics, 53; Defence of the Constitutions of the United States, 53; 73 Aeneas, 104, 118 Aeneid (Vergil): tradition of reading, 122; student’s encounter with, 128 Agamemnon (Aeschylus): at Oxford, 79; in New York, 121 Agamemnon, in the Iliad, 137, 138 Alaric, 142 Alexandria, 18 Altertumswissenschaft, 6, 15–22; defined, 17; Matthew Arnold on, 17; 21; false paradigm of, 28–29, 40; Emerson’s knowledge of, 60; in German universities, 75; 87, 100; end of, 106–11; as creative activity, 108; as game, 109–10; 120; American forms of, 121; Nietzsche’s views on, 133; 144 American Classical League, 93 American Journal of Philology, 41 American Philological Association, 78 “American Scholar” (Emerson), 58–60 Amherst College, 61, 73 Analectic Magazine, 56 Andover (school), 8 Aphrodite, in the Iliad, 137–38 Appian, in Montaigne, 140 a priori ideas, 102 174 / Index Aristophanes, 33; Acharnians, in Philadelphia, 77–78; Birds, scholia edited by White, 79 Aristotle: in medieval universities, 8–9; Poetics, 34; 101, distinctions in, 112, 115; 136 Ascham, Roger, 55 Athens, under Pericles: Cicero’s views on, 96 Augustine, Saint: City of God 142–43 Bacon, Francis, 47 Bancroft, George, 75–76 Barnard, Frederick A. P., 78 Basel (university), 31; Jaeger at, 44 Beaumont, Gustave de, 57 Bennett, William, 65, 66, 67 Bentley, Richard, 20 Berkeley, University of California at, 43, 70 Berlin (university), Jaeger at, 44 Bernal, Martin, 91 Beyond Good and Evil, 111 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Sigmund Freud), 103 Bible, King James, 88 Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), 38 Boeckh, August: Encyclopedia and Methodology of the Philological Sciences, 18–20; disputes with Hermann, 21; 29; on division of philology, 37; ideas rejected by Nietzsche, 38; 41, 75, 79–80, 120, 130 Book of Common Prayer, 88 Bowdoin College, 61, 88 Bonn (university), 30, 77 Brinsley, John: A Consolation for Our Grammar Schooles, 45 Brown University, 72 Brutus (Cicero), 96–98 Bryn Mawr College, 77 Buber, Martin, 123 Bursian, Conrad: History of Classical Philology in Germany, 20 Bush, George W., 25 Cambridge Latin Course, 94 Cambridge University, 16, 77 Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 107 Cargo Cult: 5, as metaphor for Classics, 1–3, 123; 41 Caesar, C. Julius, 95, 135 Calder, William M. III: on Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, 32 Capital (Marx), 14 Carleton College, 12 Carter, Jimmy, 25 Catholicoepistemiad, 64 Catholic University of Ireland, 11 Catullus, C. Valerius, 135 Chaucer, Geoffrey: Canterbury Tales, 107 Cheney, Lynne, 67 Index / 175 Chicago, University of, 43, 78 Christianity, 8; as aspect of classical education, 22; 39 “Christianity and Letters” (Newman), 13, 112 chronology, 18 Cicero, M. Tullius, 28, 95; Brutus, 96–98 City of God (Augustine), 142–43 Civil War: and American Classics, 76 Cixous, Hèléne, 99 Clarke, John: An Essay upon the Education of Youth in Grammar Schools, 48 Clark University, 78 classical languages: difficulty of, 91–92. See also Greek, Latin, Latin and Greek. classical scholarship: traditions of, 21 Classics: as site of cultural tension, 45 Cogswell, Joseph Green, 56, 57, 58 College of William and Mary, 46 Columbia College (Columbia University), 12, 61, 70; clings to Old College curriculum, 78 Comenius, Isaac, 55 composition, in classical languages; 24, 26; in Renaissance schools, 91; 94 Conington, John, 16 Consolation for Our Grammar Schooles (John Brinsley), 45 Constitutions of the Publick Academy in the City of Philadelphia (Benjamin Franklin), 50 Coram, Robert: Plan for the General Establishment of Schools Throughout the United States, 52 Cornell University, 78 Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 35 Corpus Professor of Latin, 16 Corssen, William, 31 Cory, William Johnson, 89–91, 93, 112 Crassus, Marcus: as example of wealth, 141–42 Cremin, Lawrence, 48 criticism, textual, 20 curriculum: how actually created, 118 Cynics (philosophical sect), 136 Dante: Divine Comedy, 121; as reader of Vergil, 121 Darwin, Charles: verdict on classical education, 10; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 14 Darwinism, 12, 20 debate: presidential in 1980, 25 Declaration of Independence, 72, 81 deconstructionism, 28 Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 58 176 / Index Dennett, Daniel, 20, 104, 107 departments: academic, 78 Descartes, René, 102 Dewey, John, 115 Dickens, Charles: Hard Times, 14 Dickinson College, 61 Die Antike, 43 discipline: intellectual, 125; mental, 68 disciplines: academic, 128 Divine Comedy (Dante), 121 Dogmatists (medical sect), 136 Don Giovanni (Mozart), 107, 108 drama, Greek...