“Shaw paints a portrait of Caesar in which all the motivations that romantic biographers and filmmakers like to show as being all for love, were actually driven by hard-nosed, brutal political calculations and realities. Shaw was making comments, in a sense, on the British occupation of Egypt...
Until I read this book last year, I had never heard ofGarden & Gunmagazine — not surprising, since I’m not much of a gardener and I don’t own a gun. The magazine runs a monthly column called “Good Dog” — beautifully written essays by well-known authors about the kinship between...
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by British historian Tom Holland is now out in both in the US and the UK. It's the third book in a trilogy that started with Rubicon, about Julius Caesar and the last years of the Roman Republic, and then went on to Dynasty, covering the ...
Compile all the abecedaries ever created and it would approximate the result of Adam and Eve’s task of naming all the creatures and things of the world. Leonard Baskin echoes that innocence inHosie’s Alphabet(1972) with its words and animals supplied by his children. If Adam and Eve had...
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 569 votes The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar) is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on tru...
6– Marching With Caesar® – Rise of Augustus In the penultimate chapter of the saga of Titus Pullus, Legionary of Rome, Titus has been promoted to the newly formalized post of Camp Prefect, by Gaius Octavianus Caesar, who will become known as Augustus. Sent to the wild province of Pan...
From the peaks of triumph to the depths of human misery, the historical Herod “seemed to have been singled out by some deity and especially endowed to attract the zigzag lightning of fate,” Hurston writes. An intimate of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the Judean king lived during ...
It traces the development of increasingly sophisticated cryptographic schemes from the Caesar cipher to SHA-256 and AES-GCM, including dozens of example Go programs and coding challenges. The book concludes with a review of best practices for handling encryption and authentication in Go applications....
Fig. 2. Caesar cipher scheme. • First, decide the extent of the shift character for forming the ciphertext from the plaintext message. • Second, redeem characters in the plaintext into ciphertext subjected to the predetermined shift. Ciphers get classified into block ciphers and stream cip...
(1957; film 1991) andCotton Comes to Harlem(1965; film 1970). Other notable first-generation writers of the hard-boiled school areGeorge Harmon Coxe, author of such thrillers asMurder with Pictures(1935; film 1936) andEye Witness(1950), andW.R. Burnett, who wroteLittle Caesar(1929;film ...