National Geographic History - 01.2019 - 02.2019
38 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 The second-century A.D. historian Appian vividly recreated the moment the Roman Re- public truly died: ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 39 He tried his first case in 81 B.C., and then success- fully defended a man accused of parricide—a ...
40 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 the republic. There were two consuls who each served a one-year term. They held equal power as politica ...
Crassus joined another general, Gnaeus Pom- peius Magnus, also known as Pompey, to take control of the government in 60 B.C. Ann ...
42 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 many works defending republican values. Dur- ing this time, a group of conspirators decided to take a m ...
Cicero remained convinced that he had a part to play in the survival of the republic. He knew that his close political associati ...
on Antony, who was away besieging the city of Mutina (modern-day Modena) where one of Caesar’s assassins was holding out. Octavi ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 45 and other citizens who should be “proscribed,” or condemned to die. The vengeful Antony man- aged ...
46 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 ccording to Roman statesman and historian Dio Cassius, Fulvia loathed Cicero—and with good reason. Cice ...
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DEEP ROOTS English painter Edmund George Warren’s 1859 painting of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood Forest. The outlaws ...
just as capturing robin hood frustrates the sheriff of nottingham, pinning down the origins of a folk hero challenges scholars. ...
50 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 the English map: Robin Hood’s Cave and Robin Hood’s Stoop in Derbyshire; Robin Hood’s Well in Barnsdale ...
Historian and archivist Joseph Hunter discov- ered that many different Robin Hoods dotted the history of medieval England, often ...
52 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 an imprisoned man named “Robin Hood” who was awaiting trial. Because Hunter and other 19th-century hist ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 53 Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales). In Langland’s work a poorly educated parson re- pen ...
54 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 This version of the legend visits extreme vio- lence on the villain, delivered by Little John and Much. ...
allowed to “beat and bind” bishops, archbish- ops, and, above all, the loathed Sheriff of Not- tingham. In the Gest the type of ...
56 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 1516 King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine took part in May Day festivities. Two hundred of the king’s me ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 57 plays centered around Robin Hood. Munday re- invents the outlaw as an aristocrat: Robert, Earl of ...
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