The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 » (1st Edition)

Caroline Winterer is an assistant professor at Stanford University. She is also the author of the book, The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition,1750-1900 (Cornell University Press, 2007).

"A conscientious and important history of the study of classicism in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... Ms. Winterer sheds light on the virtual disappearance of the ancients from the modern imagination." -- Wall Street Journal

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Winterer (history, San Jose U.) traces Americans' enthusiasm for ancient Greeks and Romans, from the time of the first European settlements to the era of the Civil war; and she discusses how they embedded their version of classicism in ethics, politics, oration, art, and education. She also tells how the aesthetic retreated in the late 19th century to elite niches, where it survives a century later. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)