Difference between revisions of "Helviticus"

Revision as of 11:32, 10 November 2006

Helvetii: Gallic tribe whose migration from Helvetia (Switzerland) precipitated Caesar's Gallic War → the Judeans were also conquered by Rome (see joshuan judges)

Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71): French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, De l’esprit, was condemned and publicly burned in 1759
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

Helveticus: (Latin) Swiss → Ulysses was largely written in Switzerland → Issy, who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of HCE's tavern, is frequently associated with Rhaeto-Romanic terms, as though her room under the tavern's pitched roof is in the Swiss Alps

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 * '''Helvetii:''' Gallic tribe whose migration from Helvetia (Switzerland) precipitated Caesar's Gallic War &rarr; the Judeans were also conquered by Rome (see [[joshuan judges]])
-* '''Leviticus:''' third book of the Old Testament
+* '''Leviticus:''' the third book of the Old Testament
 * '''Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71):''' French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, ''De l’esprit'', was condemned and publicly burned in 1759
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=124 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
-* '''''L'' Helviticus''': Swiss &rarr; ''[[Ulysses]]'' was largely written in Switzerland &rarr; [[Issy]], who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of [[HCE|HCE's]] house, is frequently associated with Rhaeto-Romanic terms, as though her room under the tavern's pitched roof is in the Swiss Alps
+* '''Helveticus:''' (''Latin'') Swiss &rarr; ''[[Ulysses]]'' was largely written in Switzerland &rarr; [[Issy]], who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern, is frequently associated with Rhaeto-Romanic terms, as though her room under the tavern's pitched roof is in the Swiss Alps
-* '''Hevelius''': polish astronomer, selenographer
+* '''Hevelius:''' Polish astronomer, selenographer