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Waugh hasn't even broken new ground for satirical treatment. In the middle of the Roman scene we find palpably modern types. Here is the Empress discussing the Pope...
Waugh is as indiscriminate as over. Half the time he is telling the story of the rise of Christianity in that era: the first official recognition of it by Constantine, the search of the dowager Empress Helena for the Cross and here success. Half the time he is "satirizing," in his old irresponsible way, the merges of the corrupt Romans of the Court and City...
...South Gallery Empress Zoe is shown with Emperor Constantine Monomachus. Nearby are Emperor John II, Empress Irene and his son Alexius. These date from the 11th century...
...Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted as the pieces of the True Cross...
...Measure of Maturity. Wu Kuo-cheng was born in 1903 in the mountains of Central China, grew up in Peking, where his peasant-born father was director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...