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...Tacitus, Historian and Satirist," Professor Rand, Sever...
...Cicero. Remember that he is quite capable of getting through the thousand odd lines of the "Bacchae" in one long night when he first appears in Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume, Kant and Croce...
Died. William Archibald Spooner, 86, oldtime classics scholar at Oxford University, onetime honorable canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, editor of a once-famed text, The Histories of Tacitus, originator of "Spoonerisms"; at New College, Oxford. Typical "Spoonerisms...
...BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined...
...period, from which "The Industrial Era" continues it to the present. The second volume is perhaps the more important, dealing with a less colorful period but one through which fewer able historians have ventured. Authors Beard write in what has been regarded as the proper manner for historians since Tacitus published his Annals, with taciturn detachment, thoughtful compactness, dignity...