The Grammar of Our Civility

Lee T Pearcy is the Director of Curriculum and Lounsbery Chair in Classics at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania.

Foreword 1. The Grammar of Our Civility 2. The American Dialect 3. Finis: Four Arguments against Classics 4. Prolegomena to a Pragmatic Classicism Notes Works Cited Index

Wearing his immense learning lightly, Lee T. Pearcy cogently and eloquently synthesizes a vast amount of previous scholarship to envision a new form of American classical education. --Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park The Grammar of Our Civility is a cri de coeur on behalf of reestablishing classical studies at the core of a new curriculum, one that draws on the distinctly American contact with the classical tradition. --Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics, University of South Carolina