Reviews the stage play `Julius Caesar,' directed by Barry Edelstein.Isherwood, CharlesVariety
English Stuff is a blog about the English language, culture and history, and we often feature posts about idioms in English –idioms being those linguistic gems of expressions that frequently don’t have a direct translation into another language, and they are often rooted in an interesting origi...
Julius Caesars Salad - Once upon a time in the ancient city of Rome, Julius Caesar was a mighty ruler with an insatiable hunger for power. He was ambitious, cunning, and ruthless, but he also had a weakness - he loved food. Caesar’s chef, a man named Brutus, was known for his ...
Julius Caesars Salad - Once upon a time in the ancient city of Rome, Julius Caesar was a mighty ruler with an insatiable hunger for power. He was ambitious, cunning, and ruthless, but he also had a weakness - he loved food. Caesar’s chef, a man named Brutus, was known for his ...
Coriolanus (not just president, but in history a Roman general and the subject of a Shakespeare play), Casca (one of the assassins of Julius Caesar—in this film, dean of the academy and creator of the Hunger Games), and Volumnia (the mother of Coriolanus—in the film, the head gamemak...
In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). ...
Julius Caesar observed that Mercury was the most important Gaulish god, although that doesn’t fit with Esus’ relative obscurity. (Caesar gave the god a Latin name, of course.) Jan de Vries and Jaan Puhvel both take the Esus/Mercury comparison further, seeing a strong resemblance between ...
“Evony: the King’s Return” creates a new hybrid game genre, allowing players to choose from different civilizations and roles while engaging in city-building and forging alliances. The game also throws in a splash of history, featuring such famous leaders as Julius Caesar and George ...
it would be the year Titus Maximus and Gaius Flavius were consuls. For this reason, it seemed to make sense to start the new year with the beginning of the consuls’ terms, and January first gradually became accepted as the first day of the new year, and when Julius Caesar introduced ...
There is a large picture of her resting her chin on her folded hands and staring into the camera while the caption mentions her new movie Julius Caesar. There are smaller pictures, one showing her painting, another showing her arranging flowers and the third showing her holding her right hand...