Comment of the Day; Neville Morley: A Note on the Jeffersonian Road Not Taken: "A Jeffersonian United States, founded on Cincinnatus-like citizen farmers...
...and the repudiation of luxury and imperial corruption. That is, chasing an already-dubious C18 version of an already-ironised C1 Roman myth of the virtuous early Republic...
No idea if any of my Roman History students follow me here, but if so: this is what's at stake in Varro's "What is a proper villa?" debate.
