Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America

Contents

vii Contents Foreword, by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy ix Introduction 1 Prologue: The Legacy of Rome in the American Revolution 11 gordon s. wood PART I: JEFFERSON’S CLASSICAL WORLD Ancients, Moderns, and the Progress of Mankind: Thomas Jefferson’s Classical World 35 peter s. onuf Thomas Jefferson and Natural Morality: Classical Moral Theory, Moral Sense, and Rights 56 michael p. zuckert Classical Taste at Monticello: The Case of Thomas Jefferson’s Daughter and Granddaughters 78 caroline winterer Thomas Jefferson’s Classical Architecture: An American Agenda 99 richard guy wilson George Washington: Cincinnatus or Marcus Aurelius? 128 maurie d. mcinnis PART II: CLASSICAL INFLUENCES America and Ancient and Modern Europe 171 nicholas p. cole Aristotle and King Alfred in America 193 peter thompson viii Contents Thomas Jefferson’s Classical Silence, 1774–1776: Historical Consciousness and Roman History in the Revolutionary South 219 eran shalev Cicero and the Classical Republican Legacy in America 248 paul a. rahe Pericles in America: The Founding Era and Beyond 265 jennifer t. roberts Notes on Contributors 301 Index 305 ...