Inspired by Liberty and Virtue: The Classical Education of the American Founding

E. Christian Kopff

Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado

How did the experience of Greece and Rome inspire America's founding generation? That question is at the heart of this lecture sponsored by the Texas Tech Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.

Professor E. Christian Kopff of the Classics Department and Honors College of the University of Colorado in Boulder (www.colorado.edu/honors/echristiankopff) is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He has written widely on the enduring influence of classical culture in America and the modern West, and is also a major champion of the teaching of Latin in our schools and the author of The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.

Dr. Kopff's lecture was delivered on November 8, 2017 in the Escondido Theater of the Student Union Building at Texas Tech University.

Professor Kopff is a learned, witty and altogether fascinating speaker. His lecture was indeed a memorable one!