Caroline Winterer

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

In this episode, Stanford University professor Caroline Winterer explores how the American founders drew inspiration from not only classical Greece and Rome, but other civilizations in the ancient world, including Carthage, Rome's mortal enemy.

Following the lecture, Carolyn and I discuss how the founders looked much more broadly in the ancient world for inspiration during the American Revolution and the creation of the American Constitution and how these ideas have shaped our constitutional democracy.

This program was presented in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Classical Studies.

It was the first in a three-part lecture series featuring Caroline Winterer titled American Antiquities Beyond the Classical World of the American Founders.

For more information about the next two lectures in this series, we've added a link in the show notes for this episode.

Please join me in welcoming Professor Caroline Winterer.

I'm just absolutely delighted to be here, and thank you all for coming.