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...however, “mildly annoyed” with the authenticity of the event. “Being currently enrolled in the class, ‘Rome of Augustus,’ in which we read several primary sources dealing with the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar, I can safely say...this is wrong,” Geselowitz said. Asked why, she responded definitively, “because they are wearing bedsheets.” As for the climax of the reenactment, Geselowtiz said, “I can’t say I was too surprised...
...random polymorphous perversity, it would be hard to top The Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (born circa A.D. 69). A classic capital insider, Suetonius served as chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian and wrote a number of books that certainly sound like best sellers, most of them, unfortunately, now lost. Connoisseurs of the carnal particularly lament the disappearance of his Lives of Famous Whores. But The Twelve Caesars still packs plenty of punch per sesterce: Augustus as an elderly man, relentlessly deflowering virgins, some of them procured for him by his wife; Tiberius training young boys, whom he dubbed...
...Claudius, and so did Shakespeare, for that matter. McCullough, who wrote The Thorn Birds, is not awed, and her narration marches sturdily through a period of fascinating turmoil in the last years of the Republic. Terrifying German barbarians have wiped out most of Rome's legions. The Senate dithers; Gaius Marius, a wealthy military man of low birth, has the energy but not the bloodline to save the situation. The author is interested in everything: how the city's sewers worked, how marriages were arranged, and how the horsehair plumes in a soldier's helmet could be detached for storage...
When James Gaius Watt was in the third grade in Lusk, Wyo. (pop. 1,800), his mother organized a club called the Five Rabbits, which consisted of the five Watts. "We'd elect officers," says Lois Watt, now 71, "and the kid that got to be president held office for a month." That formality, Lois Watt says, was the way she and her husband William, now 75, "trained the children how to make motions, make amendments and so on." It was the right of each child, while president, to set the Five Rabbits' agenda. The girls, Elizabeth...
Denver Lawyer James Gaius Watt, 42, scarcely looks like a stormy petrel. He is a balding, affable attorney with a reputation for being a workaholic dedicated to absorbing every relevant fact in a lawsuit-and then using the facts to devastating effect in the courtroom. Son of a lawyer in Lusk, Wyo., who represented ranchers and farmers, Watt married Leilani Bomgardner while still a student at the University of Wyoming (J.D. '62). He worked as a legislative aide to former Republican Senator Milward Simpson, then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power...