Before jumping into the sources, it would do well to examine the scene in which Livy lived and wrote. Born in 59 BCE, he would have been a child during the Gallic Wars of Caesar, a teenager by the time Cato the Younger had committed suicide, refusing to accept Caesar's clementia, and an adult approaching middle age by the time of Octavian's victory over Antony and Cleopatra. ... These characters' actions and traits, as well as general themes of the time show up variously in Livy's books (especially 2 and 3), and shape the way Livy presents his history. ... This does not ad...

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Gothic fiction gives shape to concepts of the place of evil in the human mind (3). ... When MacDuff says "Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit" (Act II, 3, 72-73), he is trying to rouse Banquo, Donalbain, and Malcolm to tell them that the king has been murdered in his sleep. ... (Act 1, 4) This clever badinage precedes the famous Queen Mab Speech where we are treated to some popular folklore about the dream fairy in a speech that starts out playfully but quickly descends into a vitriolic tirade by Mercutio. ... He and Romeo express two different views on dreams in t...

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Thus the early historical sections of the Bible are concerned with the manifestation of God's will in the events of human existence, while they show the same genealogical interests as the king lists of other peoples. 3 Western Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was not until the time of the Greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history, emerged. ... He used much unverified information, however, and failed to differentiate clearly between fact and fable. 4 The second great Greek historian, Thucydides, was of a different stamp. ... The great ...

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