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RHODES' NO-SHOW : USC'S HERALDED TRANSFER HOPES THERE'S A REASON BEHIND HIS SUBPAR SEASON.(SPORTS)
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Byline: Scott Wolf Daily News Staff Writer
He was supposed to be the marquee man, the only USC player with NCAA Tournament experience and the natural ability to single-handedly drag his teammates into postseason play.
As the Trojans' season sits uncertainly on the dreaded NCAA bubble, however, Rodrick Rhodes has been nearly invisible.
USC (14-9, 9-5) has completed a tough three-game road stretch against Arizona State, Arizona and UCLA. The Trojans went a disappointing 1-2, and Rhodes was a nonfactor.
He scored only 11 points in the three ...
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...innovator, such an erudite and experienced historian as Grant might have been expected to give a fresher view of this important period. Though it always gives good value, The Antonines lacks the punch of some of Grant's earlier work.
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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Historical footnote: letter to 'Wild Bill.'
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...their personal conduct, the general system of Augustus was equally adopted and uniformly pursued by Hadrian and by the two Antonines. They persisted in the design of maintaining the dignity of the empire, without attempting to enlarge its limits. By every...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...peace of our times. Emperor Decius, 250 years after Caesar Augustus, pondered ``the general causes that since the time of Antonines (Augustus) had so impetuously urged the decline of the Roman greatness. He soon discovered that it was impossible to replace...
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...eighteenth century had reached a point of stability and definition comparable to that of the Roman Empire in the Age of the Antonines: 'The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by a common religion and by the Royal Navy. The gentle, but powerful...
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The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997 BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...with the idea of subject races." For Indians, in hindsight, he believed, British rule "might well be the age of the Antonines." ** Full version of these reviews, and more book news, are available on the Web. * [Accompanied by image of the book...
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That colossal wreck
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Ghaznavids, the Timurids and the Moghuls made their Christian contemporaries feel like barbarians contemplating Rome under the Antonines. There is no excuse for people like bin Laden, Mullah Omar or Gulbuddin Hekhmatyar to pervert a culture that has produced...
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Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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Disturbers of the peace
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...to blows. If anything, today's equivalent of the great powers were keen to stay out. We lived in Gibbon's age of the Antonines. The reason is obvious and therefore to some people unpalatable: the supremacy of the United States. True, China is supposed...
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