Tag: Vergil

Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding

Vergil’s poetry was an inspiration for the Founders and is the basis for all three mottos on the Great Seal of the United States.

The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 2: The Founders’ education

Eighteenth-century education encompassed religion, music, and English. . . . But the heart of the curriculum was made up of the Greco-Roman classics.