The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 | Caroline Winterer
"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 "It is, without question, one of the greatest contributions to [the field] yet published." -- American Historical Review