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If Julius Caesars killers had hoped for the gratitude of the Roman populace for delivering them from a tyrant, they were mistaken

Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities by Cartledge, Paul at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0199233381 - ISBN 13:  9780199233380 - OUP Oxford - 2009 - Hardcover

Latest civil service & public affairs moves — April 26 New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People Government departments Johnny Mercer left his role as parliamentary under-secretary of state (minister for defence people and veterans), Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office. Leo Docherty appointed as parliamentary under-secretary of state (minister for defence people and veterans), Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office (formerly ...

Rachel Wang, Sir Peter Stothard and Bjorn Saven reappointed as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery The Prime Minister has reappointed Rachel Wang and Sir Peter Stothard as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery for a term of four years from 3 April 2021, and Bjorn Saven for a term of three years from 3 April 2021. From: Rachel Wang Rachel Wang is a Black British filmmaker and the co-founder of production company Chocolate Films. For Chocolate Films, Rachel produces video content fo...

Rachel Wang Rachel Wang is a Black British filmmaker and the co-founder of production company Chocolate Films. For Chocolate Films, Rachel produces video content for online and broadcast from bases in London, Glasgow and Berlin, with work spanning many sectors and styles. She works extensively in video production for arts, culture and heritage and works with galleries and museums across the UK, Europe and the Middle East to produce exhibition AV, documentaries and promotional content. Rachel is...

Lima Public Library Book Reviews LIBRARY OPEN • The Lima Public Library has reopened. Main library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Branch hours are noon to 6 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays, except Lafayette is closed Wednesdays. • The main library has curbside pick up. Hours are 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Call 567-712-5239, contact the library through Facebook Messenger or put a hold on a book through t...

Peter Stothard’s The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar offers a deft blend of narrative history and intelligent historical fiction in following the fates of Julius Caesar’s killers. Peter Stothard, The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 274 pp., $27.95. HISTORY IS mainly a matter of unforeseen outcomes yielding unintended consequences. The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC offers a striking case ...

Best-selling novelist Emerson has discovered that whats good for the goose is good for the gander. I can reveal that her husband, Sir Peter Stothard, has left her after 40 years of marriage for a historian two decades his junior Reflecting on her affair with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, Sally Emerson said it had served to strengthen her faith in the value of marriage. Now, however, best-selling novelist Emerson has discovered that whats good for the goose is good f...

How Augustus rebuilt Rome The collapse of the Roman republic, and the establishment amid its rubble of the rule of the Caesars, constitutes the primal political narrative of the West. In 49 BC, a system of government founded on the conviction that the only conceivable alternative to liberty was death spectacularly imploded. The claim of Julius Caesar, the greatest general of his day, to a primacy over his fellow citizens resulted first in civil war, and then – after he had crushed his ­dom...

By Steve Donoghue Correspondent So persuasive, so memorable, is the artistry of William Shakespeare that devotees of his plays who are only casual skimmers of history might be surprised to remember that it wasn’t just Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius who assassinated Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. Despite the fact that they’re the only two being forever gnawed in the jaws of Dante’s Satan at the heart of the Inferno, it was actually a small crowd of senator...