Loving the Bald Eagle to Death.

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  • Author(s): Rich, Nathaniel
  • Source:
    Atlantic Monthly. Mar2022, Vol. 329 Issue 2, p94-97. 4p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Bald eagle; Bald eagle in art; Greeks; Architecture
    • Subject Terms:
      United States
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses that the bald eagle was selected as a national symbol for "all American" reasons, but his own evidence suggests that the Founding Fathers cribbed from the Greeks and Romans, as they did their architecture, oratory, and government. Though the bald eagle is endemic to North America, an eagle was Zeus's companion, a messenger of Jupiter.