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AARON COX Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...beautiful woman, currently busying herself breaking the heart of the poet Catullus, Clodia is in disfavor with old guard Romans (such as Cicero) not only because of her love affair with her brother, but because of her practice of taking parties of respectable Roman matrons to gladiators' taverns in the suburbs. Clodia has numerous love affairs, delights in building them up to some dramatic public humiliation of her lovers. Bold, self-righteous, Clodia can stand everything except the obscene verses about her which are now beginning to be scribbled in public places all over the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Dossier on Julius Caesar | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Which of the following was not one of the outstanding men in ancient Greece: Cicero, Pericles, Plato, Socrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Tough | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...ETZKORN Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...plump, periwigged sightseer was too excited to sleep; Edward Gibbon spent his first night in Rome waiting for dawn. When at last it came, Historian Gibbon recalled later, "I trod with lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inspiring Ruins | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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