US conservatives have repeatedly turned to Classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power.
By tracing this phenomenon and analysing these, and various other, examples of selectivity, subversion and adaptation within their broader social and political.
In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to develop a uniquely conservative social science; and then Thucydides helped to justify a more assertive foreign policy in the 1990s.
US conservatives have repeatedly turned to Classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power