Word: augustus
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...bosom, Mark Antony had fallen upon his sword, and Rome's victorious Octavian had taken over Egypt. But the Nubian villagers of Dendur, 400 miles up the Nile from Alexandria, had nothing against the Romans. In fact, on the orders of the new Emperor, now called Augustus, visiting Egyptian artisans were building a temple dedicated to two young Nubian princes, Pedesi and Pihor. Both had drowned in the Nile, and victims so chosen by the god of the Nile were automatically apotheosized, as a Greek might be by a lightning bolt from Zeus. From the Roman point of view...
Over its 500 years of cultural eminence, Dresden ideally demonstrated the evolution of collecting. First there was the essentially private Kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosities) of the Elector Augustus I (1553-86) and his successors. In special palace rooms, they assembled a kind of encyclopedia of the world's wonders, here painstakingly reconstructed from engravings and a 1587 inventory of objects. Since in their view, painters and sculptors were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other...
...months of negotiations between the White House and liberal Congressmen, the President endorsed a compromise bill that would establish a national goal of cutting joblessness from its present 7% rate to 4% by 1983. Yet the bill, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, requires no specific steps to attain the 4% goal...
...proposal is far less ambitious than the original bill by Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, which would have fixed 1981 as the target date for a 3% unemployment rate and guaranteed a Government-paid job to anyone who could not find work. Carter lukewarmly endorsed this idea during the campaign-after intense pressure from black leaders-but later backed away from it as inflationary. Unable to talk him into supporting a stronger bill, liberal Democrats and labor leaders finally agreed to the present compromise for two reasons: 1) it might enable Congress to pass an employment bill...
Sian Phillips stands out as Livia, the wicked witch of the Tiber, who dominates all around with her icy, terrible beauty. Brian Blessed manages the difficult task of making Augustus, the founding father, appear both wise and foolish, the conqueror of the world who cannot manage his own family. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is half stumble and stutter and half genius, but convincing in every detail...