Difference between revisions of "Helviticus"

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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

L Helviticus: Swiss → Ulysses was largely written in Switzerland → Issy, who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of 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

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-see "joshuan judges" above
+* '''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
+* '''Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71):''' French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, ''De l’esprit'', was condemned and publicly burned in 1759
+* '''''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