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...much a gadfly that it's no wonder he was made into a scapegoat. And as played by English Actor Barry Jones, with brilliant ease and assurance, he takes on genuine personality. Raiding history a second time-for a theme-Anderson contrasts democracy in Athens with dictatorship in Sparta, a parallel with modern times that Anderson isn't the first to note. Though the point is well worth making, Socrates has to be lassoed into making it. Socrates' whole life is too exceptional, his whole method too ironic, for him to be a naturally crusading spokesman...
...suffers even more from lack of sensibility and of art than from lack of drama. It has snatches of Shavian cleverness jostling scraps of Socratic wisdom and ponderous suggestions of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. A dramatically pointless harlot tags after a comic-strip King of Sparta; and in direct competition with perhaps the most nobly serene death scene in history, Anderson introduces one all his own. Dramatists rightly take liberties; but Drinkwater did not have Lincoln assassinated at Gettysburg, and Shaw refrained from having Joan devoured by lions...
...Named after the second brightest star. In Greek mythology, Canopus was the steersman of famed Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of even more famed Helen of Troy...
...Sparta or Moscow...
...defense attorney made a final appeal to the five judges of the court, as Greeks and as men of the world. "Here in Crete, Sparta and the ancient Greek land," declaimed he, "it is common practice and tradition for strong men to steal their brides." Unmoved, the court found Constantine guilty of carrying illegal arms, sentenced him to two years in jail, plus a $400 fine. Tassoula wept and vowed: "I will go back to Crete so I can be near...