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Life and Caesar
Battle formations as described by Plutarch in his Life of Caesar c. 44
* Plutarch, Life of Caesar 25-27
* Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Julius Caesar
The source used by Shakespeare was Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Brutus and Life of Caesar
At the Tribunal of Caesar: Leaves from the Story of Luther's Life.
Plutarch in his " Life of Julius Caesar " gives a vivid description of how she entered past Ptolemy ’ s guards rolled up in a carpet that Apollodorus the Sicilian was carrying.
In his Life of Antony, Plutarch remarks that " judging by the proofs which she had had before this of the effect of her beauty upon Caius Caesar and Gnaeus the son of Pompey, she had hopes that she would more easily bring Antony to her feet.
Eusebius's Life of Constantine claims that Constantius was himself a Christian, although he pretended to be a pagan, and while Caesar under Diocletian, took no part in the Emperor's persecutions.
His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).
Dau ( 1921 ) At the Tribunal of Caesar: Leaves from the Story of Luther's Life.
* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "
His first book, Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard, was written at the age of 12 and published three years later in 1930.
It was probably also in this period that he wrote his Life of Cato, in which he will have praised the advocate of senatorial freedom against Caesar, with whom he also shared an interest in Stoicism.
Caesar's pamphlet has not survived, but some of its contents may be inferred from Plutarch's Life of Cato, which also repeats many of the stories that Caesar put forward in his Anti-Cato.
* Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar, 50.
* Plutarch: The Life of Julius Caesar
* Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar
* Caesar: Life of a Colossus, ( Yale University Press, 2006 ) ISBN 0-300-12048-6
* Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, with Love and Laughter, by Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld.
In 1953 an episode of Life Is Worth Living consisted of a reading of the burial scene from Julius Caesar, with Sheen substituting the names of Stalin, Beria, Malenkov and Vyshinsky for Caesar, Cassius, Marc Antony and Brutus.
The country tunes in each week to watch Beauregard, who appears with Caesar on the covers of Look and Life Magazines.

Life and Plutarch
In an account by Plutarch, the catastrophic failure of the Sicilian expedition led Athenians to trade renditions of Euripides's lyrics to their enemies in return for food and drink ( Life of Nicias 29 ).
Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )
* Life of Otho ( Plutarch ; English translation )
It is based primarily upon the Life of Themistocles and Life of Aristides from Plutarch.
" ( Plutarch, Life of Cimon, quoted Burkert 1985, p. 206 ).
* ( Theoi Project ) Plutarch: Life of Theseus
* Plutarch: Life of Alexander
Every autumn, according to Plutarch ( Life of Lycurgus, 28, 3 – 7 ), the Spartan ephors would pro forma declare war on the helot population so that any Spartan citizen could kill a helot without fear of blood or guilt ( crypteia ).
* Doppelleben ( 1950 ); autobiography translated as Double Life ( edited, translated, and with a preface by Simona Draghici, Plutarch Press, 2002, ISBN 0-943045-19-3 ).
* Ian Scott-Kilvert, notes to Life of Tiberius Gracchus by Plutarch ; Penguin Classics
Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.
* Plutarch: The Life of Brutus
In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.
* Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus, 1 ( 75 AD )
The only reward he would accept was a branch of the sacred olive, and a promise of perpetual friendship between Athens and Cnossus ( Plutarch, Life of Solon, 12 ; Aristotle, Ath.
Marius relaxed the recruitment policies by removing the necessity to own land, and allowed all Roman citizens entry, regardless of social class ( Plutarch, The Life of Marius ).
In his Life of Marius, Plutarch writes that Marius's return to power was a particularly brutal and bloody one, saying that the consul's " anger increased day by day and thirsted for blood, kept on killing all whom he held in any suspicion whatsoever.
Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus ( Fragment 364 ), Theognis ( Fragment 1 ; 267, 351, 649 ), Aristophanes ( Plutus, 414ff ), Herodotus, Plutarch ( Life of Themistocles ), and Philostratus ( Life of Appollonius ).

Life and renders
for short )-This spell is an exception to the normal rules of magic in that it can only be cast once per adventure for a cost of 15 Life Points, and only in designated areas, but the effect renders Pip completely invisible.

Life and name
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
The Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Caracalla, relates ( 10. 5 ) that Caracalla then assumed the name Alemannicus, at which Helvius Pertinax jested that he should really be called Geticus Maximus, because in the year before he had murdered his brother, Geta.
Some manuscripts of the Life of Cuthbert, one of Bede's own works, mention that Cuthbert's own priest was named Bede ; it is possible that this priest is the other name listed in the Liber Vitae.
In the show, Frontline competes directly with Nine's A Current Affair and Seven's Real Life, which changed its name to Today Tonight from 1995 onwards.
In April 2007, the congregation voted to change its name to Spring Life Church to re-emphasize the mission of the church which is to " Cultivate, Plant, and Grow ".
The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.
Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers ; he was born Constantine, but took the name Cyril upon becoming a monk shortly before his death, according to the " Vita Cyrilli " (" The Life of Cyril ").
However, he wrote a completely new song entitled " The Glamorous Life " to take the place of the song by the same name from the stage version.
In 1973, progressive rock band Korni Grupa, under the name The Cornelians, released the symphonic rock album Not an Ordinary Life.
The name " Tree of Life " has been attributed to it by modern scholarship ; it is not used in the Assyrian sources.
The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
From a theoretical point of view, it is interesting because it has the power of a universal Turing machine: that is, anything that can be computed algorithmically can be computed within Conway's Game of Life .< ref name =" bcg ">
The ULC was founded in 1959 under the name " Life Church " by the Reverend Kirby J. Hensley.
The popular alternative band My Chemical Romance stated in their DVD Life On The Murder Scene that bassist Mikey Way got the name for their band from the book's subtitle.
Originally introduced as " Miller High Life Genuine Draft ", the " High Life " part of the name was soon dropped.
It was intended to be the last part of his stories, according to the original title-page of its first edition but a third part, Serious Reflections During the Life & Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, With His Vision of the Angelic World, was added later ; it is a mostly forgotten series of moral essays with Crusoe's name attached to give interest.
It has no connection, other than the character's name, to the earlier film Eddie Monsoon: A Life ?, a comedy play written by Saunders ' husband Adrian Edmondson in 1984 for the TV series The Comic Strip Presents ....
Philo describes him as a great magician in the Life of Moses ; elsewhere he speaks of " the sophist Balaam, being ," i. e. symbolizing " a vain crowd of contrary and warring opinions " and again as " a vain people " — both phrases being based on a mistaken etymology of the name Balaam.
* ABC soap opera One Life to Live features a character by the name of Lola Montez.
In 1997 the Uppsala based biotechnology division Pharmacia Biotech merged with Amersham Life Science ( U. K .) and took the name Amersham Pharmacia Biotech.
An early suggestion is that the name for the king in York in the Life of Cathróe has been erroneously supplanted for Eric's predecessor Amlaíb Cuarán ( Olaf Sihtricsson ), whose ( second ) wife Dúnflaith was an Irishwoman.
The project was filmed under the cover name A Boy's Life, as Spielberg did not want anyone to discover and plagiarize the plot.
CompuServe was founded in 1969 as Compu-Serv Network, Inc. ( the earliest advertising shows the name with initial caps ) in Columbus, Ohio, as a subsidiary of Golden United Life Insurance.

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