In the heart of the Security Directorate, corruption festers, and political machinations rule. Major General John Simm, Propaganda Bureau Director, shapes reality with his words. His assistant hospitalised by a workplace accident. Her replacement so inept he suspects intention. But is she the target, or was he? Can he get to the bottom of it before they try again? Dare to step into the darkness of a dystopian urban fantasy like no other.
More stories from the ruthless fascist dictatorship that is the Security Directorate. The Director General oversees the indoctrination and eugenics programmes to ensure only the best and brightest survive to take up postings in the elite enforcement Protection Squad. These are five of their stories. • Life in the Security Directorate - Eve struggles to come to terms with life in the Directorate and finds her own way out. • Honoris Virilis Respectu - Major General John Simm struggles with the difference between his version of the truth and the Director General’s. • Calling it a Day - Captain Maeryn Prothero finds herself on the wrong side of the Directorate. Is she good enough at her job to be worth saving? • Veni Vidi Vici - Second Lieutenant Cora Meadows must make a one woman assault on Exploratorem Station. • Pursuit of Power - Captain Tara Cline pursues a serial killer with a dirty secret. These stories will continue to challenge your sense of a good life.
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence.
The Security Directorate takes care of its own. Hard-arsed detective Captain Maeryn Prothero is on the case. In a junkyard. With a red phone box. It makes her feel light and bouncy. Disturbing and uncomfortable. Setting her nerves on fire. Battling the fragmented memories of her past, can she save herself? Before the Security Directorate does.
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Information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites that the International Astronomical Union has approved from its founding in 1919 through its triennial meeting in 1994.
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.
