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

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221 Index 300 (graphic novel), 176 Abrams, Elliot, 154 academic societies, proliferation of in late nineteenth-century U.S., 70; individual societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 109; American Historical Association, ix, 70, 99; American Negro Academy, 62–63; American Philological Association, 5, 58, 64, 177; Archaeological Institute of America, 5 Adams, John, 1–3, 14–16, 31, 38, 42 Adams, John Quincy, 14, 42–43 Adcock, F .E., 131 Aeschylus, 26–27 Aesop, 18–20, 23–24 affirmative action, 148 Afghanistan, 138 African Americans, 8–10, 53, 55–67 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 56, 58–59, 62, 65–67 Agrippa, Marcus, 100 Al Qaeda, 161 Albania, 90 Alcibiades, 173–174 Aldrich, Nelson, 76, 78 Alexander the Great, 62 American Civil Liberties Union, 119–20 American exceptionalism, theory of, 160, 169–70 American Jewish Committee, 109, 116–18 American Missionary Association, 56–57 American Revolution, 158 Ames, Fisher, 190n.13 ancient languages, instruction in, 5, 9, 10, 13–28, 46–47, 58, 60–61, 63, 66, 70–73, 75–76, 100–101, 129, 175–76 Meckler.ClassicalAntiquity 5/25/06 12:07 PM Page 221 222 Index Brecht, Bertoldt, 109 Brezhnev, Leonid, 137 Britain, Great, 14, 36, 95–96, 115, 130, 153; classical education in, 23; foreign policy at Paris Peace Conference, 90–91; government, constitution of, 3, 30, 33–34, 38, 178 Brown, David Paul, 44 Brownsville Soldiers, 65 Budenz, Louis, 121 bureaucracy, 8 Burr, Aaron, 2 Burton, Theodore E., 65 Bush, George H. W., 145, 161 Bush, George W., 153–57, 161, 168, 171–72, 215n.5 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 104, 106 Byrd, Robert C., 7, 141–51, 178–79 Caesar, Gaius Julius, 1–2, 18, 22, 25–26, 77, 148–49 Caesarism, in U.S. politics, 149, 151 Caldwell, Charles, 43 Calhoun, John C., 55 Cambone, Stephen, 154 Canning, Edna Moskowitz, 108 Canning, William M., 98, 108, 111, 120–23 Cannon, Walter B., 119–20 capitalism, 103, 115, 168, 170, 174 Cardozo, Francis L., 56 Carnegie, Andrew, 70, 76 Carthage, 32, 36, 146 Catholics and Catholicism, 9–10, 45, 49, 108, 116 Catiline, 18, 74 Cato, see Moral Distichs Catullus, 26 Cecil, Robert, 87 “Centinel” (Antifederalist essayist), 33 Central Intelligence Agency, 123 Cheever, Ezekiel, 18, 20–23 China, 98, 110–11, 130, 138 Chinard, Gilbert, 37 Christian Coalition, 142 Cicero, 1, 16–23, 25–26, 30–32, 42, 45–46, 50–51, 74–75, 101, 142, 144, 146–47 ancients and moderns, relationship between, as aspect of antebellum self-culture, 47, 49, 51, 53; in thought of Leo Strauss, 155, 163, 168, 170–71 Angell, James B., 84 anticlassicism, 9, 13–15, 43 anti–Communism, 95, 103, 123–24 anti–Semitism, 88, 98, 102, 109 anti–Stalinism, 111, 115, 117 Arabs, 87–88 Archidamus, 132–34 Argos, 134 aristocracy, 29–34, 37, 39, 50, 134, 136, 139, 170, 178; natural aristocracy of James Harrington, in American political thought, 30–34; oligarchy, fears of, 33, 43–45 Aristophanes, 133 Aristotle, 26, 30, 32, 36, 44–45, 162, 164, 167 Armenia, 88–90, 92 Arnett, Benjamin, 59, 66 Athens, classical, 6–7, 36, 49–53, 73–74, 84, 99, 128–39, 151, 173 Augustine, 21, 101, 177 Augustus, 4, 12, 22, 50, 148 Austria-Hungary, 130 Baker, Ray Stannard, 85 Baldwin, Roger, 119–20 Baldwin, Stanley, 115 Bancroft, George, 42, 48, 50–51 Barzun, Jacques, 200n.25 Belgium, 130 Bell, Daniel, 98, 102, 124 Bell, Gertrude, 88 Bennett, William J., 218n.7 Berns, Walter, 11 Bible, 3, 17, 19, 21, 84, 176; biblical figures: Cain, 216n.36; David, 21; see also Hebrew; New Testament, Greek Biddle, Francis, 119 Bliss, Tasker, 89–90 Bloom, Allan, 11 Boas, Franz, 97–99, 109–10, 112–19, 124 Born, Max, 109 Meckler.ClassicalAntiquity 5/25/06 12:07 PM Page 222 Index 223 Cornell, 11, 72, 84–85; Dartmouth, 17; Dickinson, 15; Franklin and Marshall, 15; George Washington Univ., 144; Georgetown, 11; Georgia, 14; Harvard, 11, 16–19, 23, 42, 45–46, 48, 72–73, 76, 169; Howard, 66–67; Hunter Coll., 107; Illinois, 71; Indiana, 72; Marshall Univ., 144; Michigan, 84; Missouri, 121; Morris Harvey Coll., W.Va., 144; Nebraska, 85; New School for Social Research, 99, 153; New York Univ., 43, 115; North Carolina, 14; Oberlin, 56–58, 211–12n.56; Ohio State, 59, 71; Pennsylvania 15–16, 46, 121; Penn. State, 72; Princeton (orig., Coll. of New Jersey), 6, 10, 16–17, 26–27, 46, 73...