id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_26dcccnkargwxlkj3sryto232e Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler Examining Possible Influences of the Classics on Early American Leaders 2013 6 .pdf application/pdf 2376 109 53 Examining Possible Influences of the Classics on Early American Leaders Three of the essays focus specifically on Jefferson: Peter Onuf's "Ancients, Moderns, and the Progress of Mankind: Thomas Jefferson's Classical World"; Caroline Winterer's "Classical Taste at Monticello: The Case of Thomas Jefferson's Daughter and Granddaughters"; and Richard Guy Wilson's "Thomas Jefferson's Classical Architecture: An American Agenda." Two prominently In Shalev's, Jefferson "saw the classics as a comforting Jefferson saw little to be gained from reading the classics because Americans Perhaps because their essays are more specific in their treatments of Jefferson's use of the classics, Winterer and Wilson find evidence that he borrowed Two additional essays address the influence of the classics on Jefferson less Hutcheson ("Thomas Jefferson and Natural Morality: Classical Moral Theory, for Jefferson, Anglo-Saxon precedents more than those of the classics provided Similarly, Shalev in his essay calculates that, in the run-up to the Revolution, Jefferson was "silent" regarding classical references. ./cache/work_26dcccnkargwxlkj3sryto232e.pdf ./txt/work_26dcccnkargwxlkj3sryto232e.txt