Parallel Lives: Romans and the American Founders

ISBN-13: 9781032030746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 198 str.

Karl Baughman; Brook Poston

Opis

This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch in a previously unexplored area of study.

Suitable for those interested in the late Roman and early American Republics and those studying connections between the ancient and modern worlds.

Recenzje

Alexander Hamilton's favorite book was Plutarch's Lives because he and the other Founders knew that creating a good Republic depended on lessons learned from the past. Baughman and Poston have now brought Plutarch forward by drawing comparisons between seven ancient Romans and seven American Founders. No comparison is ever exact - Julius Caesar, for example, ended the Roman Republic while George Washington helped create a new one - but comparisons are helpful because they enable us as interpreters to enter into the conversation between them. Parallel Lives: Romans and the American Founders is exquisitely researched and elegantly written, bringing new insights to both our past and present.

Susan Ford Wiltshire

Author, Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Parallel Kings: Julius Caesar and George Washington, 2. Parallel Philosophies: Cato the Younger and Benjamin Franklin, 3. Parallel Lawyers: Cicero and John Adams, 4. Parallel Conspirators: Catiline and Alexander Hamilton, 5. Parallel Traitors: Mark Antony and Aaron Burr, 6. Parallel Constitutions: Sulla and James Madison, 7. Parallel Revolutionaries: Augustus and Thomas Jefferson, Conclusion, Further Reading, Index.