Yesterday, I delivered (live) the third and final talk in my three-part series for the Politismos Museum of Greek History on the influence of the Greeks on America's Founding Fathers. If you missed it, hold on--they'll be posting the finished video in a while. But if you'd rather listen to them, you can download all three talks in mp3 format here:
1. The Greek Frame - Why did Thomas Jefferson call himself an "Epicurean"?
2. Learning What Not To Do - How the authors of the Constitution learned from the Greeks how not to do democracy.
3. The Two Freedoms - How the Romantic Age revived the tension between ancient and modern values, giving rise to the Greek Revolution and the U.S. Civil War.
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