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Tyrant: a sharp reminder of fallibility for one politician
Tyrant: Ordinary Iraqis want Saddam brought to trial as a war criminal
Given that the British Empire was moribund anyway, was it ever worth making common cause, even rhetorically, with a
tyrant like Stalin under the slogan of anti-imperialism?
As the conspirators in Julius Caesar bathe their hands in Caesar's blood, so blood runs also through Coriolanus, where the hero is not called a
tyrant, but could be so considered.
Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedy of Mariam" and poetry by John Donne demonstrate how
tyrants who reject the possibility of such friendships force women to adopt the heroic femininity embodied in chastity as their language of opposition.
Sir, - The big headline 'British always lead victory over
tyrants' for Mr James Alensender's letter (Post, Apr 18) is very misleading.
MARK: Jefferson refuses to change the word, and the majority concurs; so John Hancock--who's presiding--declares: "The king will remain a
tyrant." You've made a good analogy, Hal.
In the process, they run into two surprises: a bloodthirsty
tyrant and dragons.
Tyrannin ylistys (In Praise of the
Tyrant) contains poems from 1970 to 1981, thus partly overlapping with the earlier "Poems" and "Narrative Poems." Its contents have all been published before.
A courtier of Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, Sicily (
tyrant from 405 to 367 BC), known to history through the legend of the "Sword of Damocles."
The
tyrant, according to Professor Bushnell, tends to be associated with certain characteristics.
From here one can see where the
tyrant was crucified on the Persian shore opposite.
Born about 535 B.C., the son of Deinomenes; appointed
tyrant of Gela by his brother Gelon, who had made himself
tyrant of Syracuse (485); fought under Gelon at the defeat of the Carthaginian Hamilcar at Himera (480); became
tyrant of Syracuse on Gelon's death (478); endeavored to increase his power among the Greek states of southern Italy and Sicily; refounded the abandoned city of Catania in Sicily as Aetna (475); decisively defeated the Etruscans in a great naval battle off Cumae (474), thus ending Etruscan naval power; defeated Thrasydaeus of Agrigentum (Agrigento) and so gained control of most of Sicily; he was known as a patron of the arts, and played host to Simonides, Aeschylus, and Pindar at his court; died in 467, or possibly early 466.
North Korea has labelled Joe Biden a "fool of low IQ" and an "imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being" after the US presidential hopeful called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a
tyrant during a recent speech.
