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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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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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The New York Observer
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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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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Critical Essay by James A. Notopoulos
1,474 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following essay, Notopoulos investigates the sources for the imagery found in “Sailing to Byzantium.”


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