Word: mommsen
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...great merit of Duggan's Caesar is that he is not a tailor's dummy draped in a thesis. Professional historians from Tacitus to Mommsen have cloaked Caesar in dissertations about one-man power, the Roman constitution, and the pros and cons of emperors and empires. On the other hand, Duggan feels no need to give Caesar a coating of grease paint so he can strut the stage. Author Duggan has grasped the elusive obvious, that great men are measured by heritage, not histrionics. As Duggan sees it, Caesar's enduring heritage was divided into three parts...
...week's end, close to 2,000 readers had swamped the Alsops with answers (most of them wrong). The winner: Theodore Geiger, 38, National Planning Assoc. research chief, who was first to guess that the quote was from Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, the opponents Rome (Russia) and Carthage (the U.S.). The victor: Rome...
Shakespeare, as well as Gibbon, Mommsen and other amateur detectives pinned the crime on Brutus; but Mr. Irwin's hero, Manlius Scribo, star reporter on "The Evening Tiber," the first experiment in tabloidia, had his own ideas about the murder. And Manny Scribo was on the spot...
...great German historian Mommsen characterized Jewry as a ferment of decomposition in the life of nations," tie proclaimed, "then decomposition in Germany is far advanced. ... If, therefore, National Socialism with ferocious determination fought against the stealthy collapse of the Occident, it did so in recognition of the not yet destroyed values innate in civilized nations...
...quotations serve sufficiently to show the spirit and the style of the work. Not the least reason why this type of history gains such a large number of readers is its lucid, clean-cut style certainly easier reading than the classically ponderous works of the older school Gibbons and Mommsen for example. Here no foot-notes are to be found, no weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously. Mr. Thaddeus, even more...