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...member of the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philological Association, and the Classical Association of New England. His "Commentary on Cicero's 'De Divinatione'" is famous among scholars. Since his accession to the Presidency of Amherst, Dr. Pease has continued his classical studies...
...Cicero the Crator", Professor Rand, Sever...
With a hasty word here & there Mr. Smith glosses over the massacres and riots that once were such vivid reminders of Chicago; and over Alphonse ("Scarface" ) Capone and Cicero. Swashbuckling William Hale Thompson is never mentioned by name. Corrupt governments act-politely adumbrated. Of the city's newspapers the only mention concerns their buildings...
First in Honor Mods a year and two thirds, or five terms, of epic, drama, and oratory. Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles Aoschylus, Homer, Lucretius, Demosthenes and Cicero. Remember that he is quite capable of getting through the thousand odd lines of the "Bacchae" in one long night when he first appears in Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume...
...away a fairly substantial picture of the life at Rome in the height of its greatness. Inevitably other great characters of history figure to a more or less extent in this account; men such as Caesar, Crassus, Octavius, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cassius are all seen in their relation to Cicero and his times. Of course Cicero's life is the central theme of the book, and is shown throughout its development...