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CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "Four Views of Caesar"-Julius Caesar as seen through his own writings, those of Plutarch, Shakespeare and Shaw...
Such was clearly the intention of Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Story, he insisted, must dominate spectacle, and with that in mind he constructed not one drama but two-both broadly true to Plutarch, each about two hours long...
...breaks the power of the republic and makes Caesar (Rex Harrison) master of the Roman world. Having ordered his affairs in Europe, Caesar marches into Egypt, where civil war is raging between King Ptolemy and his seductive sister, Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). "Overcome by the charm of her society," as Plutarch discreetly puts it, Caesar gives Egypt to the fascinating bitch and seems inclined to crown her the first empress of Rome. But the Ides of March intervene, and Cleopatra sadly says goodbye to all that...
Paul was no classical author, writing by hand or dictating and correcting his manuscripts like a Plato or Plutarch, but a busy missionary bishop employing the amanuenses that he could pick up in the cities where he wrote his Epistles. Some were first-class, using classical Greek, balancing every sentence with the copious use of kais. Others were third-rate and knew only the koine kais, which have as much meaning as our colloquial ands. So kais are the most unreliable "figures" to pour into a computer...
...theory that every writer has certain subconscious, invariable writing habits. Morton had Dr. Michael Levison of Birkbeck College program the London computer to check the frequency and use of kai, a common Greek word meaning and, also, even, etc., in sentences drawn from nine classical writers-including Plato and Plutarch-found that each had a clear and distinct pattern in the way he handled his kais...