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...beginning to feel as nasty as a cannibal myself. I have been considering Caius Marcius Coriolanus, for whose attitude I have developed a sneaking admiration. I spent the weekend rereading both Plutarch's and Shakespeare's version of the story. Coriolanus, a great warrior and fierce hero of early Rome - scornful, intolerant, and an early masterpiece of political incorrectness - so offended the plebeians by refusing to flatter and truckle to them (he was supposed to kiss babies and campaign for their approval in order to be ratified as consul) that they mobbed up and came close to throwing...
...Caius Marcius (Alan Howard) has won the added name of Coriolanus by defeating the Volscians at Corioli. He is a Roman of boundless valor and steely pride. The patricians put him up for consul of Rome and the plebeians grudgingly accede, though Coriolanus refuses to do any political truckling to secure their favor. Furious at his open contempt, the plebs rescind their approval and have him banished from the city...
...Attic Greek of a passage in Walter Pater's "Plato and Platonism," at the beginning of Chapter 1, "with the world of intellectual production," through the words "of the really critical study of him," and the other for a translation into Latin of a passage in Walter Pater's "Marcius the Epicurean," at the beginning of Chapter 1, "as in the triumph of Christianity," through the words "as the procession approached the altars." These translations must be written by undergraduates of Harvard College in regular standing in 1907-08, and must be handed in not later than April...
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