... people of France, the Gauls. The Gauls were a Celtic people led by the warrior Vercingetorix, they fought against the oncoming Roman army of Julius Caesar to no avail. Similarly to how Irish children grow up hearing about legends such as Cuchulainn, French children learn about their "ancestors the ... Asterix's cousin, Anticlimax, comes to Gaul in search of Asterix as he has heard of their magic potion. Anticlimax needs the potion because Julius Caesar and the Romans have begun their conquest of Britannia and similarly to Asterix's village, theirs is the last village withholding the Rom...

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... stamp. In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote ... . The English translation by Sir Thomas North had a profound effect upon English literature; it supplied, for example, the material for Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Timon of Athens. A translation by John Dryden was revised by A. H. Clough in 186...

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... beyond what was considered typical writing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most of Shakespeare's works in the first period were chronicle history plays. These were basically plays based on facts chronicling the life of a person, or in the case of Shakespeare, most likely a king. The first period was also characterized by Shakespeare's plays concerning the Lancastrian and Yorkist kings. This ... mixing the two to give a greater depth to the humanity of the characters. Two of his most famous tragedies were written during the second period, 'Romeo and Juliet,' (1595) and 'Julius Caesar.' A...

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... sure what happens after death and which events take place there. But these positive beliefs help people not to think badly about future life and not to invent non-existing facts and activities. There are people in the modern society who do not believe in God, and these people are called humanists. They believe that "nothing survives after death except the ... people were placed in the first circle of Hell called Limbo. The narrator met the great number of prominent poets, teachers and doctors, such as Homer, Horace, Ovid, Hippocrates, and Julius Caesar and so on. The author pointed out ...

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