Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school in 1861. He drew his painstaking pictures of Julius Caesar, a stage coach, an Indian chief in his copy book (see cut) between exercises such as 300 lines of "Is intemperance a greater evil than slavery...
...sharp-beaked nose, like the prow of a war galley (see cut, p. 79), the Romans were easily led to believe that Cleopatra had to hold her men with knockout love drops. The kind of men she seduced made her sex appeal even more mysterious. Tall, black-eyed, bald Caesar "had known the whole gamut of indulgence," three or four faithless marriages. Yet Caesar, already married, defied hostile public opinion to keep Cleopatra openly in Rome with their illegitimate son during his last three years, introduced a law permitting him to marry several wives; and at 60, in spite...
Handsome, big-chested, lusty Antony, easily bored, with ten mistresses to Caesar's one, seemed an even less likely fellow for any woman to hold for long. Cleopatra held him nearly 13 years. For her he deserted his brilliant wife Fulvia, his beautiful wife Octavia, risked a revolution to crown Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, risked the good opinion of posterity by making their three children his heirs, ignoring his four in Rome. Finally he divorced Octavia at the risk of war, the war which finished...
...appeal alone, Author Ludwig insists, has never achieved such results. That Caesar and Antony went down was not Cleopatra's fault; if, says Ludwig, they had followed her advice, her example in killing off two brothers and two sisters, had not naively pardoned their enemies, everything would have been all right. Pale, cold-blooded Octavian, whom easygoing Antony had twice neglected to "liquidate," won out because he followed a more modern technique of demagogy and blood purges. It is in tracing such blunders of Caesar and Antony that Author Ludwig makes Cleopatra's maneuvers shine with genius, makes...
...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...