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... and the political turmoil rooted in an inability to construct a new power bloc turned Caesarism in the person of Erdoğan into a process of political transition similar to those in Russia, Iran, and Egypt. Hence, the structural crises of the Kemalist Republic, merged with the historical crisis of Islamism, became...

..., there have emerged five figures who may be prop­ erly termed fascist, in the larger sense of that much abused word. These five are Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Na- 350 The South Atlantic Quarterly poleon Bonaparte, and Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the greater...

... Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar...

... human. Biopolitical Stupidity Rise of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Rupert Wyatt and released by Twen­ tieth Century Fox in 2011, tells the fictional story of a chimpanzee named Caesar (Andy Serkis) who, having accidentally gained enhanced intelligence from experimental gene therapy...

... for the slaves. His parishioners are divided in their reception of the new doc­ trine. The counsel of the wiser heads is ignored by the parson. An African aid society is formed. Between politics and slavery the morals and religion of the congregation de­ cline. The society brings in a fugitive slave. Caesar...

..., Jack Caesar s favorite, had a long tenure in the flower of all the Roman provinces, a Gaul no longer divided into three parts. Also Tenth Men, sometimes called Gemina, sometimes Fretensis, garrisoned Vienna and Jeru­ salem. It is recorded that they liked that gay Vindobona, with its waltzes-to-be, far...

... as a result of which the citizen­ ship was opened to all Italians. A generation later Julius Caesar made himself very unpopular with the aristocracy by liberally admitting non-Italians to citizenship. He instituted a system of preferred foreigners, particularly Greeks, who were trained as physicians, teachers...

...Terry Caesar Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Terry Caesar On Teaching at a Second-Rate University But if you are forbidden to say second-rate, why then you must leave behind you all good sense nothing can be discussed at all if you can t say second-rate! Wyndham Lewis, Tarr...

... and delicate health, his mother would not let him exert himself and his teachers forbore to urge him. He was meagre and sickly from the first, and hence his nick­ name of Batalus given him, it is said, by the boys in derision of his appearance. The great soldier and untiring cam­ paigner, Julius Caesar...

... the average American student could understand and have some initial sympathy with. Latin studies long had a rather rigid canon that reaches back at least to the Renaissance and in the case of Virgil to antiquity. After a year of introductory grammar the student read Caesar s Commen­ Classics and Canons 221...

... of his flag, surmounted by the brazen eagle, ses deux bras croises sur sa poitrineJ> his arms folded above his breast revolving the destiny of empires; Caesar at the tomb of Achilles, or pausing on the Thessalian stream, On the Death of Stonewall Jackson 229 brought to a stand by that doubt with which...

... certain of the author s judgments. The volume merits attentive perusal by any stu­ dent of ancient history and historiography. There are chapters on The Hellenistic Background, Historical Writing in Rome to the Death of Caesar, and Sallust ; two chapters each are devoted to Livy and Taci­ tus...

... of Cleopatra and those of Caesar, the question is whether he must choose at all between the two. Instead of choosing, Antony resolves the conflict by striving equally toward both values and rhythmically making each one a mea­ sure and condition of the other. What Antony and later Cleopatra achieve through...

.... The volume merits attentive perusal by any stu­ dent of ancient history and historiography. There are chapters on The Hellenistic Background, Historical Writing in Rome to the Death of Caesar, and Sallust ; two chapters each are devoted to Livy and Taci­ tus; the eighth discusses Ammianus Marcellinus...

... to the brave exploits of the British in the face of Roman invasion. The outstanding figure here was Cassibellan, who routed Julius Caesar on several occasions and was finally overcome only by the treachery of a fifth columnist. In Book IV there also appears, but briefly, Kymbelinus, later to become Shakespeare...

... patra is tragic only to the extent that we share Caesar s assumptions about time, the importance of public acts of self-assertion, the value of individual life, and the worth of worldly possessions. . . . Caesar, like tragedy, has been beguiled by an Alexandrian romance (pp. 32-33). The bulk...

... meaning of these couplets was never quite forthcoming. Another tale old Johnnie was fond of telling was the proud saga of how he killed Julius Caesar s deer in old Dismal Swamp. When asked how he knew it to be Caesar s deer, he said it had a strap about its neck on which was written (but whether in Caesar...

... also. Her connection with Caesar was founded as much on political sagacity as on love, though Caesar, already becoming an old man when he first saw her, still had a mighty way with the sex. Upon Caesar s later years she exerted a strong influence and thus quite directly upon the last years of the Roman...

... of Marengo. We all remember with what majesty Caesar pronounced his immortal Quid times? What fearest thou, it is Caesar whom thou bearest and his fortunes! And how Marius paralyzed the arm of the Cimbrian sent to assassinate him in the dungeon of Minturna by his Who art thou, who art not afraid...

... a man like Bolingbroke steals all courtesy from heaven by his managed show of false robes, and where, as in Caesar s Rome or the Danish court ruled by Claudius, the ceremonies and formal rhetoric of society disguise the actual condition of life.4 It is very much like Venice through the eyes of Iago...