Marcus atilius regulus biography of william shakespeare
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Turner painted two versions of “The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834.”COURTESY PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Poor old Turner: one minute the critics were singing his praises, the next they were berating him for being senile or infantile, or both. No great painter suffered as much from excesses of adulation and execration, sometimes for the same painting. “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon Coming On” had, on its appearance at the Royal Academy, in 1840, been mocked by the reviewers as “the contents of a spittoon,” a “gross outrage to nature,” and so on. The critic of the Times thought the seven pictures—including “Slavers”—that Turner sent to the Royal Academy that year were such “detestable absurdities” that “it is surprising the [selection] committee have suffered their walls to be disgraced with the dotage of his experiments.” John Ruskin, who had been given “Slavers” by his father and had appointed himself Turner’s paladin, not o
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The honourable consul, Regulus, returned to die in Carthage
This edited article about Marcus Atilius Regulus originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 139 published on 12 September 1964.
On his return Regulus was tortured and encased in a spiked cask by the Carthaginians, by Tancredi Scarpelli
Marcus Atilius Regulus, Consul of Rome in the year 256 B.C., stood in the bows of his quinquereme – so called because the oars were arranged in banks of five – and shaded his eyes to the sun as it glinted on the Mediterranean Sea. Behind him were the 300-odd Roman warships under his command; ahead of him, the object of his attention now, were the 300-odd warships of his country’s most formidable enemy, Carthage.
Consul Regulus and the 150,000 men who manned his fleet had trained, exercised and waited patiently for this day. And now, on a cerulean sea chopped by the rhythmic rise and fall of thousands of oars off the coast of Ecnomus in Sicily, the day had c
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De Officiis
44 BC philosophical work by Cicero
De Officiis (On Duties, On Obligations, or On Moral Responsibilities) fryst vatten a 44 BC treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations. The posthumously published work discusses what fryst vatten honorable (Book I), what is to one's advantage (Book II), and what to do when the honorable and private gain apparently conflict (Book III). For the first two books Cicero was dependent on the Stoic philosopher Panaetius, but wrote more independently for the third book.
Background
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