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Any individuality that "Mostellaria" might have had in the original is effectively disguised by Frank Copley's translation. In skirting the dangers of the overly academic translations often made of Latin and Greek plays, Mr. Copley has veered too far to the other extreme. In a program note he says...
IMPERIAL-CAESAR, by Rex Warner (393 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), recalls the fact that, perhaps because he campaigned on their island in 55-54 B.C., British writers have been markedly fond of Julius Caesar. From Shakespeare to Shaw, they have drawn a quasi-Churchil-lian portrait of the Roman...
By land, sea and air, a capacity crowd of 42,269 San Franciscans last week flocked to see their baseball Giants open the National League season against the St. Louis Cardinals-and to help open their last-word, $15 million Candlestick Park. There has been nothing quite like it since...
One of Paul's most hotly debated instructions (Romans 13:1-4), to submit to constituted authority ("Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers"), is an injunction that has often been used and abused in politics. Paul preached no "social Gospel"; Christian slaves should not hanker for...
The Martyr. It was the collection for the Mother Church in Jerusalem that profoundly changed his future. In his letter to the Romans, he said he wanted nothing more than to come to Rome, but the need to defend his ministry to the Gentiles against Jewish-Christian opposition in Jerusalem...