This Sceptred Isle: Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror 55BC-1087 v.1: Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror 55BC-1087 Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection)
An American Lion (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is still a debate raging as to whether or not they actually found a bust of Julius Caesar in the muck and the mud of the Arles river: Dredged up from the murky depths of the Rhône River, beneath a heap of wrecked cars, rotting tires and more than 20 centuries of silt, the statue’s white marble visage was plain as day. “My God, it’s Caesar!”...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
A marble bust dredged up from the Rhône River, is thought to be the only known surviving statue of Julius Caesar carved during his lifetime, though some question its authenticity.
Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The bankers and bureaucrats of Brussels have accomplished what Julius Caesar, Philip II, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler could not do : From today, as the Lisbon treaty comes into force, we are no longer masters in our own house. Our prime minister, as a member of the European Council, is obligated under this new treaty to promote the aims and objectives of the European Union, over and above...
An American Lion (Free subscription) | yesterday
... time now, back to Regis High, where the Jesuits started him off right away in freshman Latin on Julius Caesar’s “Gallic War.” They followed up with other tales, some in Latin, others in English, of Rome’s famed Tenth Legion, of their epic fights against Gauls and Belgians, and especially of Vercingetorix, noblest of the barbarians and a favorite of young Cromwell....
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... McKay. The movie tells the story of a teenager who is hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar. Related: Zac Efron ready for real life musicals
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the archives, and then on foot and by car--from the southern slopes of the Vosges Mountains where Julius Caesar had defeated the German tribes, to the vineyards of Alsace, to the rocky canyons of the River Meuse, to the baked fields of Brabant. And I stop in awed silence in places such as Dinant and Louvain, where civilians suspected of sniper fire brought immediate, brutal retaliation:...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... promote. Set in 1937, the film sees Welles about to mount his ground-breaking stage production of Julius Caesar in New York. The "me" in the title refers to a callow teenage actor, played winningly by Zac Efron. Welles, meanwhile, is brought brilliantly to life by newcomer Christian McKay. It is easy to see why Linklater might be drawn to the subject – as an independent...
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
... twenty years before me, and I was taught by both of them. I was in John Branston's production of Julius Caesar at the Fairfield Halls -- and was taught O-level English by Dick Glynne Jones. As he said their names, I thought "He can't be talking about the same people..." but of course, he was.) There's a sort of interview with me, and a gallery of snapshots, over at http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lomoamigos/2009/11/30/neil-gaiman-shoots-with-the-lc-a-plus...
barneylstt5 | 29/11/2009
... who fortuitously stumbles into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theater production of "Julius Caesar" directed by the young Welles. During one tumultuous week, he makes his Broadway debut, finds romance with an ambitious older woman and dares to cross the overbearing Welles in a coming-of-age tale. The film is Efron's second release since he graduated from the successful
Edgy Inspirational Author blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... she deems cruel and unloving. But there is no escape. Political turmoil swells as Roman general Julius Caesar and his legion storm the city, and Cleopatra, Greek queen of Egypt , fights to retain her country against both Caesar and bloodthirsty rivals within her own household. Sophia is caught in the middle between a loyalty to Cleopatra and her maddening interest in Bellus,...
Feeling Listless (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... become uncultured functions of a system. I’ve extrapolated slightly but I suddenly felt like Julius Caesar having refused to heed the words of the soothsayer. Don’t we all feel that’s happened now? I momentarily wondered if we are living through a culturally baron time when everyone is listening to the same music, reading the same books, watching the same films,...
FilmTrailer.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... AND ORSON WELLES is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937. The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (impressive newcomer Christian...
renfrew88637 | 26/11/2009
... who fortuitously stumbles into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theater production of "Julius Caesar" directed by the young Welles. During one tumultuous week, he makes his Broadway debut, finds romance with an ambitious older woman and dares to cross the overbearing Welles in a coming-of-age tale. The film is Efron's second release since he graduated from the successful
Italianotes English (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Quotation of Plato ← Older revision Revision as of 17:22, 25 November 2009 Line 1: Line 1: - The zone where we now see the ruins of the various Imperial Forums, was occupied by housing of all types during the time of the Roman Republic. These dwellings beseiged the Roman Forum cutting off the possibility of a vaster urbanistic breathing space. Julius Caesar was the first to have...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... the Booth brothers’ benefit. And still fewer realize that the play in which they appeared, Julius Caesar , was about a political assassination. Given his subsequent act of madness, you’d think that John would have taken on the role of assassin—but instead, he played Marc Antony. To his way of thinking, though, this might have made sense—Antony not only had...
