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Byzantium Information
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 Byzantium (Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city, which, according to legend, was founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas or Byzantas (Βύζας or Βύζαντας in Greek). The name...




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Slogging to Byzantium
10/04/2003: 1,718 words, approx. 6 pages Slogging to Byzantium Clive James W. B. YEATS: A LIFE: THE ARCH-POET, 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster Oxford University Press, L30, pp. 832, ISBN 0198184654 Yeats was a great poet who was also the industrious adept of a batso mystical philosophy. Do we...
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Adrift In Byzantium.
07/20/1998: 871 words, approx. 3 pages Just when you thought it was safe to go outside without your Codification helmet on, a new round of fighting has begun to prove that the war is not over. The long ongoing Codification of Statutory Accounting Principles project that has preoccupied...
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 Investor's Business Daily
Charlemagne's Main Direction
7/26/2007: 1,114 words, approx. 4 pages Charlemagne believed in fair government for all.He ruled an empire called Francia that stretched larger than the boundaries of what today are France and Germany. Despite the great distances and difficulty in traveling, Charlemagne (742-814) gathered all his leaders for meetings every year.At these assemblies,...
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A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
7/24/2005: 1,290 words, approx. 4 pages No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95. The first reaction is visceral, and should be recorded here before the critical faculty interposes to hedge and qualify: I was so thoroughly sucked in and freaked out by...



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Critical Essay by E. San Juan, Jr.
7,149 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following essay, San Juan offers a reading of “Sailing to Byzantium” that underscores the thematic concerns of the poem, particularly those of transition and change.
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