CLASSICAL CORNER

FORTEANA FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD COMPILED BY BARRY BALDWIN

307: “THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES ON AFTER THEM” (Title from Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar) Written on 1 January 2025, day of the New Orleans attack. As terrorist atrocities escalate around the world, it may not be a consolation but a reminder that such acts are in no way modern but go back to classical antiquity and (perhaps) beyond. The word ‘Terror’ seems to have originated in a Times article on 30 January 1795, and was defined in English dictionaries by 1798 as ‘Systematic use of terror as a policy’. This of course refers to Robespierre and the French Revolution. Definitions naturally vary according to which side of the fence you are on. As Beyond the Fringe remarked of Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta: “That was when he was a…

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