Posted on 07/04/2021 3:46:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Classically-educated colonial Americans learned to be wary of monarchy from the Iliad and the Odyssey.
It is very likely that, in July 1776, many Americans heard sermons based on the text of Psalm 143:6 -- “Put not your trust in princes….” One suspects that ministers used words even more harsh than those in the Declaration of Independence, where “the present King of Great Britain” was assailed for “repeated injuries and usurpations, all having their direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”
George III had been much admired by colonials. They had erected an equestrian statue to him in New York’s Battery in 1770, but in what was probably our first statue take-down, it was toppled after the Declaration was read to Continental troops on July 9, 1776.
Americans had blamed Parliament for the political crisis that began with the Stamp Act in 1765, and for the war which began in April 1775. They hoped to reform relations between colonies and Britain,
Americans knew about many bad kings: John, Richard II, the Tudors, the Stuarts, and others, but Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, published in January 1776, argued that the problem was not the moral or intellectual weaknesses of individual kings; instead the problem was monarchy itself, and the only solution was independence. Paine’s arguments were convincing, but Americans’ classical education prepared them for Common Sense.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Not the Homer most publik skreweled Americans will be thinking of sadly.
DOH!
What do you expect from them? BTW I have read Homer and the Odysseay, many, many years ago.
Do Americans even read Homer anymore?
Parents to pull up their big boy and big girl panties, yank their kids out of publik skrewls, and do something like this...
It's a concept whose time has come
Note to parents: Where there's a will, there's a way.
*guilty
;D
“Homer’s Odyssey? Isn’t that the minivan I rented once? That thing had cup holders everywhere?” Homer.
Thomas Jefferson’s phrase ...... “all men are created equal”......... meant that no person be of noble birth.
Article I, Sections 9 and 10 forbid the federal government or any state government from granting titles of nobility.
The Odyssey taught me that you can only trust your dog.
Probably not.
FWIW, I took Latin and Greek in college, courses on ancient history, and the first thing I though of was “DOH!”
My profs are spinning.
And doesn’t have the vacuum anymore! 😔
The US Government and the IRS controls all churches via their 501 (c) status
Well, you’re in good [or pitiful] company, at least.
:D
BTW, in honor of your post, if we buy one of those darn things, I’m calling it Homer!
I name our cars.
ευχαριστώ, Vaquero!
DJT’s first four years were like the Trojan war. Now he’s 5 years in to a 10 year odyssey.
Precisely.
So there *are* tiny men hiding inside PedoJoe’s head?
George III had been much admired by colonials. They had erected an equestrian statue to him in New York’s Battery in 1770, but in what was probably our first statue take-down, it was toppled after the Declaration was read to Continental troops on July 9, 1776.
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From today’s Loyalist Trails (a weekly EMail)
Ben Franklin’s World: The Horse’s Tail: Revolution & Memory in Early New York City
In honor of the Fourth of July, this episode explores the history of revolutionary New York City and how New Yorkers came to their decisions to both install and tear down a statue to their king, King George III, and what happened to this statue after it came down. It’s a story that will reveal the power of visual and material objects and how they help us remember the American Revolution.
Our guests for this episode are Wendy Bellion, a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and the author of the book, Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment; Leslie Harris, a Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University and author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626 to 1860; and Arthur Burns, a Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London and the Academic Director of the Georgian Papers Programme. Listen in...
https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-306-the-horses-tail-revolution-memory-in-early-new-york-city/
Loyalist Trails: UELAC Newsletter 2021-27 July 4, 2021
(UELAC = United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada)
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