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The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Updated Edition) by Carl J. Richard Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-674-31426-3 / 0674314263 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-31426-9 / 9780674314269 Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalization and speculation, the influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally beco |