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Brought before Vespasian, Josephus pleaded for his life by relating a dream he had had: Vespasian would become Emperor of Rome. Vespasian was so delighted by the news that he set Josephus up in style and provided him with a wife; in turn, Josephus spent the rest of the war trying to persuade the Jews to surrender. He believed it to be God's will that Rome, the mightier culture, should prevail. In their bullheadedness, the Jews ignored the classic portents of disaster: chariots darting through the clouds, a cow giving birth to a lamb in the Temple...
...Religion. In Rome, a happier prophecy also came true: Vespasian became Emperor. As a protégé of the court, Josephus was able to devote the rest of his life to his massive histories: The Jewish War, and Antiquities, a 20- volume history of the Jews. While fulsomely admiring his adopted country, Josephus sought to explain and vindicate the Jewish people, to communicate the unique sense of theocracy (he is credited with coining the word) that was to pervade the Christian world. He wrote: "The whole nation is fashioned for religion. Practices which other nations call mysteries and sacred...
...study for the priesthood. It was perhaps the most damaging decision the Sun King ever made. For young Eugen, a minor prince of the Alpine duchy of Savoy, was defiant and outraged. He disguised himself as a woman and fled to Vienna and the court of Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who happened to be a distant cousin. Prince Eugen solemnly swore that he would return to France only in another guise -with sword in hand...
...effort in the 60-day defense that was to save the city and end the Ottomans' long westward advance won him a colonelcy and his own regiment. He was a major general at 22, a field marshal before he was 30. In his 54 years of service, the Emperor's new recruit was to liberate Central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish rule, to establish Habsburg hegemony in Italy, and then to hold it and the rest of the Holy Roman Empire against a far more powerful and expansionist France...
BEETHOVEN: CONCERTO NO. 5 (RCA Victor). The exuberant Artur Rubinstein and the Boston Symphony's meticulous Erich Leinsdorf bow in each other's musical direction in a performance of the lordly "Emperor" Concerto that is both polished and grand...