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...opening night this evening, Bailey will see the fruit of his efforts. "I'm not much of a theater-goer. I've never been to an opening night before," he says. "One is a little nervous about how the play will go--one hopes it is reasonably well-received," the British-born scholar says...
Segal, who wrote the play, asked Bailey questions about everything Roman, from specific historical details to broad societal customs. Segal said, "In that period of the Roman Republic, much like the present, divorce was rampant. Cicero's daughter was divorced from her husband, and I wanted to know exactly how divorce took place. Shackleton said that all someone had to do--either the husband or the wife--was say they wanted a divorce, and that was that...
Segal says that Bailey was especially helpful with those little details that you just can't find in history textbooks. "I wanted to know what the Romans did when they saw each other. Did they shake hands? Did they embrace?" Segal says Bailey explained to Segal that Romans would join their right hands but this was not an everyday occurence...
Over the last two years, Bailey met with Segal a number of times, and recently also met with the actor who will portray Marcus Tullius Cicero, the star of the show...
...Bailey, who is spending the fall at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, contests the notion that he is `just' a Cicero scholar. "I sometimes get slightly irritated when people act as if Cicero is all that I'm interested in. I think I've published articles on nearly all of the major figures of the period," the scholar says, adding that just last year he published a work about Horace, a poet of the Golden Age of Roman literature...