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The conquering hero as show-off
; ...vanities and savagery of imperial rule. Yet the Latinate charm of his prose implied wry nostalgia, not only for the age of the Antonines, but also for the whole myth of Roman grandeur. In my undergraduate day, Professor F. E. Adcock continued to lisp in Tacitean...
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Disturbers of the peace
; ...come 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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Historical footnote: letter to 'Wild Bill.'
; ...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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The triumph of the Eurocrats Europe at 50
; ...Europeans seem so restless, resentful and downright ungrateful about this golden age to rival Gibbon's ''golden age of the Antonines.'' The resentment has been expressed in the French and Dutch votes against the proposed European Constitution two years ago...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT.(LOCAL)
; ...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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That colossal wreck
; ...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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When in Rome. .(Column)
; ...with the fact that the country has made steady and impressive progress toward the valor of the Caesars and the piety of the Antonines, but I worry that we might be a trifle early with the distribution of the laurel leaves and the hymn to Capitoline Jupiter...
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(book reviews)
; ...come. 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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A classical fantasia: Carl Laubin has resurrected all C.R. Cockerell's major works in one ambitious, extraordinary painting.
; ...Architecture at the Royal Academy. This is answered at the top on the left by Cockerell's Reconstruction of Athens in the Time of the Antonines, an appropriate crown to the images below it. These refer to his role as an archaeologist, highlighting his passion for the...
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