Author: Steven Saylor

Cites

• Pontius Pilatus (1)
  • IN: Catilina's riddle (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is truth?
    FROM: NULL, (100), NULL, Italy
• Ben Jonson (1)
  • IN: Catilina's riddle (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How haue we chang'd, and come about in euery doome, Since wicked CATILINE went out, And quitted Rome? One while, we thought him innocent; And, then accus'd The Consul for his malice spent; And power abus'd. Since, that we heare, he is in armes, We thinke not so: Yet charge the Consul, with our harmes, That let him goe. So, in our censure of the state, We still do wander; And make the carefull magistrate The marke of slander.
    FROM: Catiline his Conspiracy, act iv: 863–878, (1611), Play, UK
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Catilina's riddle (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The story begins on the first day of June (the Kalends of Junius), 63 bc. Embossed upon the shield Aeneas saw The stony halls of the netherworld, the domain of the damned And the punishments they suffer. There Catilina clings to the edge of a sheer Precipice, cringing in terror while the Furies beat their wings about him…
    FROM: The Aeneid, v: 666-669, (-19), Poem, Italy
• Aeschylus (2)
  • IN: A Mist of Prophecies (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cassandra: Apollo, Apollo! Lord of the ways, my ruin You have undone me once again, and utterly. Chorus: After the darkness of her speech I go bewildered in a mist of prophecies.
    FROM: Agamemnon 1080-82; 1112-13, (-458), Play, Greece
  • IN: Wrath of the Furies (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the wrath of the Furies who keep watch upon mortals will not follow deeds, but I will let loose death in every form.
    FROM: The Eumenides, (-458), Play, Greece
• Plautus (1)
  • IN: Last Seen in Massilia (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ubi tu qui colere mores Massiliensis postulas? Nunc tu si uis subtigitare me, probast ocassio.
    FROM: Casina (963-964), (-184), Play, Italy
• Marcus Tullius Cicero (1)
  • IN: A Gladiator Dies Only Once (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Natura inest in mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam cupiditas veri videndi. (Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Alexandre Grandazzi (1)
  • IN: Roma (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Legend is Historical, Just as History is Legendary
    FROM: The Foundation of Rome, (1997), Book, France
• Dio Cassius (1)
  • IN: A murder on the Appian way (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men were eager to win office and even employed bribery and assassination to do so, but such was the state of affairs in the city that elections could not be held. With no one in charge, murders occurred practically every day.
    FROM: Roman History, xl, 48, (233), Book, Italy
• Le Bon, Gustave (1)
  • IN: Empire (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is scarcely capable of preserving the memory of anything except myths.
    FROM: The Crowd, (1895), Book, France
• Anacreon (1)
  • IN: Raiders of the Nile (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It irks me that Eurypyle, so glamorous, For boorish Artemon has cravings amorous. He used to go out shabby and threadbare With wooden earrings poking from his hair. Wrapped in a smelly oxhide cloak Repurposed from a shield, he was a joke, A good-for-nothing crook and a bore, Seen now with cook, now with whore, Making a criminal living. Often I saw him in the stocks, giving A yelp as he was slapped about And had his hair and beard plucked out. But now the son of Kyke appears In a chariot, with gold rings in his ears, Carrying an ivory sunshade- Worthy of a pretty maid?
    FROM: C. 500 B.C. P OETAE M ELICI G RAECI 43, (-500), Poem, Greece
• Philostratus (1)
  • IN: The Seven Wonders (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With a favorable wind, Apollonius and his disciple Damis arrived in Rhodes. As they approached the Colossus, Damis exclaimed, “Teacher, could anything be greater than that?” To which Apollonius replied, “Yes, a man who loves wisdom in a sound and innocent spirit.”
    FROM: The Life of Apollonius Of Tyana , 5:21, (245), Book, Greece
• C. P. Cavafy (1)
  • IN: Wrath of the Furies (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The war with the Romans has begun.… How will our glorious king Mithradates Dionysus Eupator find time to listen to Greek poetry now?
    FROM: Darius, (1920), Poem, Egypt

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• Marek Krajewski (1)
  • IN: Phantoms of Breslau (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is like a sentence. How did I deserve it?
    FROM: Roman Blood, (1991), Novel, US