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In the kitchen of art.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...of Apelles, representing A Tragic Actor and a Boy, was mined through the ignorance of the painter to whom Marcus Junius as praetor [c. 25 BC] entrusted it to be cleaned before the games of Apollo. The desire to intervene, when necessary, to preserve artistic...
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Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2006; ; 564 words
; ...knows well, the book offers little for the historian. Anachronistic equivalencies for Roman technical terms ( major-general for praetor , cruiser for war-galley ) are misleading, and factual errors undermine the reader's confidence: Carrhae is in Turkey, not...
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The Myth of Pope Joan.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 650 words
; ...ceremony because their shape could be seen as an echo of the folding curule chairs which were a symbol of the power of consuls and praetors, but as they also echo a commode, they invited scurrilous parodies, including the fiction of the verification ceremony. The...
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(book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2000; ; 579 words
; ...individuals' rights of inheritance from their natural families. Gardner reconstructs various stages in the evolution of the praetor's edict to show that these worked for the advantage of the emancipati, first by replacing the inheritance rights of the gens...
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SMPS: Society for Marketing Professional Services of Utah. (organization providing educational and business opportunities for marketing professionals in building-design industry)
Magazine article from: Utah Business; 6/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...of the profession, let alone who aspire to be involved, says Stephanie Craft, marketing coordinator for Eckhoff, Watson and Praetor Engineers and founding member of SMPS of Utah. She adds, That is why SMPS is so important, whether for someone just starting...
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The Complete Works of Voltaire Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2005; ; 610 words
; ...texts for the Foundation's OEuvres completes. However, Voltaire revised Mariamne again in 1762, principally to remove the Roman praetor and governor of Syria, Varus--whom Voltaire now found 'prodigieusement fade'--and to incorporate Soheme, 'une espece de janseniste...
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Artful Books.
Magazine article from: ForeWord; 1/1/2007; ; 555 words
; ...resistance of this issue is ForeWord's Ninth Annual Look at the Big Ten: Outstanding Books from University Presses by ForeWord's Praetor of Prose, Peter Skinner. He presents books that celebrate humankind's energies and achievements, and the quest for new horizons...
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Honor killing: losing a war isn't as great a stain on a nation's soul as refusing to admit defeat.(Virtue)
Magazine article from: The American Conservative; 1/28/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...general won the highest government posts, those of consul and praetor. What really mattered was not whether you were defeated but...Another historian, Livy, records that in 170 BC, after the praetor Lucius Hortensius had launched an unprovoked assault on the...
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