Caligula

Roman Empire Arising in 31 BCE, the Roman Empire was the largest, most expansive, and most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. After the Battle of Actium, Gaius Octavian Thurinus took the throne of the new Roman Empire. As Julius Caesar’s nephew, he took the name Augustus Caesar. The senate willingly granted Augustus the power of emperor, while Julius, who ruled before him, held the title of dictator as he had military power. Because of this, Augustus Caesar is…

His power was threatened, but he knew how to preserve it. With some subterfuge he convinced all of his enemies to attend his banquet. Acting as the perfect host, he served his guests. Then he annihilated them. Death alone was not enough: he needed his wrath to be known; he gently laid his enemies upon their stomachs, their arms bound behind them, and used a mallet to thrust a blunt stake through the length of their bodies, making certain that it did not puncture any vital organs. He sneered as…

“The Dear Leader is a workaholic. Kim Jong Il sleeps four hours a night, or if he works through the night, as he sometimes does, he sleeps four hours a day….His micromanaging style is less Caligula, with whom he has often been compared, and more Jimmy Carter on an authoritarian tear.” (Maass). Obviously, Kim Jong Il is completely obsessed with everything running smoothly and keeping an eye on everyone so that nobody can try and overthrow him…

experience of the Absurd. In 1942 he published the story of a man living an absurd life as L'Étranger (The Stranger). In the same year he released Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), a literary essay on the Absurd. He also wrote a play about Caligula, a Roman Emperor, pursuing an absurd logic. The play was not performed until 1945. The turning point in Camus's attitude to the Absurd occurs in a collection of four letters to an anonymous German friend, written between July 1943 and July…

assassinated. Julius Caesar played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Empire, that there is no doubt of. I believe that Julius was a great leader to his people and not a tyrant he was killed to be. Since 3/5 emperors after him (Caligula,…

Heads like Caligula and Nero got to be notorious for squandering cash on luxurious gatherings where visitors drank and ate until they got to be debilitated. The most well known beguilement was viewing the gladiatorial battles in the Colosseum. There were numerous general…

Carrying the concept of masculine dominance out of the Pompeian brothels and into the homes of wealthy individuals in Pompeii, we come to a small golden bracelet left behind on the body of a female victim of the eruption of Vesuvius. In her article On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor, Baird discusses the significance and some of the potential meanings behind a golden serpent shaped coil bracelet found on a woman’s corpse, presumably that of a slave. Etched on the inside of…

The assassination of Caesar on Ides of March of 44 BC, marked the beginning of sweeping changes that will push Roman state into the civil war out of which Octavian will emerge as the sole ruler of Rome, dissolving in that manner half a millennia long period of Republic. The next five centuries Rome will flourish, struggle, change and eventually, under the heavy pressure from incursions of Germanic and other peoples that came in waves from the steppes of today's Russia and Asia, collapse leaving…

T. P. Wiseman is a classical scholar and professor emeritus of the University of Exeter. He has published numerous books and articles on the literature, social, and political history of the late Roman Republic. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, which is an organization that recognizes high scholarly distinction in the humanities or social sciences. He has also published a few books on the mythography of early Rome. He was educated at the Balliol College in Oxford. The Myths of…

“Best Actor 2014” Peter El Rojo, “The Gorilla” Premios Soberano. "Best play and Best Actress 2012 " Master Class by Terrence Mcnally- Carlos Espinal Director, “Best Actor 2007 “The Kiss Of The Spider Woman”-The Musical, music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. “Congressional Recognition” by Members of the Congress of the United States Of America, “Great Seal of the City of Atlantic City” Atlantic City,…