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The first recorded amnesty was granted by Athens in 403 B.C. to most of those who had collaborated with Athens' Spartan conquerors after the Peloponnesian War. (The word itself is from the Greek amnestia, which means "forgetfulness.") The Romans, on occasion, continued the custom, which they called restitutio in...
Despite their importance to Israel or the Arabs, the world finds it difficult to excite itself unduly about the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the wastes of Sinai or even the fertile lands of the Jordan's West Bank. But Jerusalem, symbol of monotheism to East and West, a city...
Having made some valid points about the indignity of being considered only sexual objects, a few of the feminists have unfortunately gone on to exaggerate the proposition. They now claim that women are almost universally victims of rape. Never since the Sabine women were put upon by the Romans has...
When the Romans introduced their rich ways to England, the Britons scorned these foreigners "who bathe in warm water, eat artificial dainties." This establishes a motif that runs through Miss Pullar's history: puritans v. orgiasts. But gradually the natives came round. By the time those other invaders, the...
Today's Englishman, Miss Pullar concludes, has come full circle and ended up like the Romans, with bread-and-circuses. But what she finally cannot forgive him is the poor quality of the bread.