 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Dalai Lama sheds politics for divine.
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Byline: Manya A. Brachear
CHICAGO _ Plucked from his birthplace in northeastern Tibet as a toddler, faced with an invasion as a teen and forced into exile in his 20s, the 14th Dalai Lama has spent most of his life shouldering the leadership burdens of his beleaguered homeland.
Now observers say the Dalai Lama, 71, is inching out of the political spotlight to reclaim the role he has always wanted to play _ that of "a simple Buddhist monk."
On Sunday, the Dalai Lama will deliver his first official Buddhist teaching to a Chicago audience, a sign that ...
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Domitian and the dynamics of terror in classical Rome. (reflections on the 1900th anniversary of the emperor's assassination; includes a bibliography)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...thoughts on the world of the emperor Domitian -- its traumas and its terrors -- to...September 18th, AD 96, as the emperor Domitian was going to retire for his midday siesta...the emperor must hear it at once. Domitian dismissed his entourage and withdrew...
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How to cheat at editing: the Domitian Bilingual Chronicle, Anno 679.
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...nineteenth-century editor Charles Plummer, manuscript F of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A. viii, fols. 30-70) is written in the hand of the monk of Christ Church who created the abbreviated Chronicle it contains...
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Mothers in Statius's poetry: sorrows and surrogates.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Helios
; ...s poetry was written during the reign of Domitian (81-96 C.E.). Unlike Augustus, Domitian did not stand at the head of a thriving...son who died in infancy some time before Domitian became emperor, and he did not attempt...
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Revelation's Visionary Challenge to Ordinary Empire
Magazine article from: Interpretation
; ...near the end of the reign of the emperor Domitian, who was assassinated in 96 CE. (Against...Heresies 5.30.3). The final years of Domitian's reign were marked by violent action...and public monuments. When vilifying Domitian, Roman writers charged that he had made...
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Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...like to be blind. The Roman emperor Domitian (AD 51-96) would have applauded the...AD 150-235) reports the occasion. Domitian had a room painted pitch-black and...realms of the dead, with the exception of Domitian who conversed on topics relating to death...
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Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...Ephesus, which supposedly illustrates Domitian's arrogant claims even though it is...dated in the reign of either Nero or Domitian, who, according to Eusebius, showed...Scholarship has favored now Nero, now Domitian, though Domitian has, I think, been...
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Today's Latin lesson
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...intimate companion of Vespasian's younger son Domitian, Scaurus was banished from Rome during Domitian's own imperial reign of terror. That reign is now over, and Scaurus's memoirs of Domitian and the events of 68AD have been requested...
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Between Text & Sermon: Revelation 17:1-14
Magazine article from: Interpretation
; ...beginning with Augustus and ending with Domitian. Divine honors in Rome began with Augustus...persecuted Christians in Rome. As Domitian (81-96 CE.) is the eighth major...Boring, Revelation, 1989, 178-85). Domitian is said to have required even his lieutenants...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Psycho drama; The Roman Actor Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...Byline: RACHEL HALLIBURTON THE Emperor Domitian's megalomania was summed up by the...aware of the irony that Charles, like Domitian, would eventually be killed by his subjects...the far more allembracing theatre of Domitian's paranoia, especially when his new...
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Arts: The mask of command Though written in 1626, The Roman Actor, at London's Gielgud Theatre, offers startlingly modern views on power and acting, says RHODA KOENIG
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1626 play The Roman Actor, Sher's Domitian enters atop a column, arms up, palms...frankly discuss their misgivings about Domitian, saying that, while his father signed...question attains a certain urgency when Domitian asks the actors to indulge his whim and...
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