Romans in America
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In der Städte von North Carolina fliegt Licht durch die Fenster des Central Dome, illuminierend eine Marble-Figur, die mit ruhiger Gerechtigkeit auf einer fast sechs Fuß langen Plinth fliegt. Die Figur, die in romanschemischer Militär-Arme geblasen ist, zeigt tonierte Beine, Arme und eine ausgeschlossene Navel, die in einer schweren Schuhe auf dem linken Arm kaskiert ist. In his right hand he holds a marble pen, poised above a tablet in his left. Inscribed upon the tablet are the words, George Washington, to the people of the United States, 1796, friends and citizens. Es ist der erste Präsident der USA, immortalisiert in Stein, als er seine 1796-Farewell-Adresse schreibt. Doch sein Kleid, ein Stil, das zwei Jahrhunderte alt war, war nicht seiner Wahl.
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Hey there, nice to have you with us. I'm Don Wildman and this is American History Hit. The Roman Empire lasted for about 500 years, from 27 BC to 476 AD. It reached from northern Africa, around the Mediterranean, including the Balkan, Italian and Iberian peninsulas, all the way to the British Isles. It was not the largest empire in human history, but for western civilization it was certainly the most influential. What happened in Rome, lessons of civic governance among others, did not stay in Rome. It spread far and wide across time, eventually setting roots in the fertile soil of a brand new nation called the United States of America. This Roman diaspora of civic and cultural ideas It's wonderful to be here. Thank you. So, we're about to discuss how high-minded Roman ideals became essential to the founding of the US. But let's begin with something very familiar to everyone. The classically inspired architecture, so prevalent across America, certainly in the nation's capital.
There is no more obvious demonstration of how committed our founders and their ancestors were to the Greeks and Romans. So many columns and porticos and pediments. How did this thing happen in America? Were we all intended to feel like Romans?
We were all intended to feel like Romans from the moment of the American Revolution between 1776 and 1788. Americans began to shift their attention from the monarchy of King George III in England, who had now come to symbolize everything that was. awful and autocratic to the Republic of Ancient Rome. And so after the revolution, beginning in 1788, they began to erect columns and porticos and all kinds of gleaming white architecture across the cities of the new United States. As you said, most obviously, it's visible in the city of Washington, D.C., which arose as a brand new city from the swamps of Maryland and Northern Virginia. In den 1790er Jahren. Nun, wenn sie wirklich über die ältere romane Architektur wussten, dann wüssten sie, dass sie gruselig gekleidet war. Aber sie wussten nur die romane Architektur aus Ruinen. Und so hat sich all die Farbe ausgeschraubt. Und so ist all der amerikanische Neoklassizismus gläubig weiß.
It comes all at the same time as the popularity of the Grand Tour in Europe had sort of risen up and we were suddenly discovering these ancient things like the pyramids and so forth. Thomas Jefferson, of course, has everything to do with this, bringing this neoclassical principle over here. Tell us how he was met with when he brought these ideas to the fore.
Well, he was met with great enthusiasm. He spent five years in France as one of the American ministers during the 1780s. And in fact, in 1789, he came face to face with an actual ancient Roman temple in the south of France, a little temple in Nîmes, in the city of Nîmes in France, which used to be a Roman monastery.
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