The Emperor's Club Page #2

Just why am I...|Huh? No. I'm going.

Goodnight, Mr. Bllythe.|Yeah. Good night. Good night.

Jesus Christ.|I am such an a**hole.

Carthaginians.

Yes, sir.

Hamilcar Barca seems like|an outstanding commander.

Yes, who had the misfortune|of being on the losingside.

You do realize that|Hamilcar Barca is not part|of the course reading list?

Yes, sir.

Very good.

Lights out.

9:
00, gentlemen.

Good night.

Hi.

Hello.|- Oh, hi.

Welcome back.

It's great to see you!|You too. How are you?

I'm fine.|You sure you're all right?

Ye-Yeah.

What did you think of Athens?|- Oh. I loved it.

I knew you would.|Tony hated it, but you know the British.

"Too many Greeks."

Tony's Tony.|Here.

I told the man in the store|I wanted something...

for a very serious scholar|of antiquity.

The Parthenon.

It's smaller than I remember it.

I don't have one of these.|Thank you.

I found it in the agora.

Tony couldn't understand why I wanted to|go there. It's a little touristy now,...

but I kept hearing|your voice in my head.

And I kept seeing it exactly|the way you described it,

with Socrates teaching|right in front ofme.

And... there was Tony, falling|asleep from the heat and ouzo,...

and me eating|my shish kabob.

I thought about you a lot.

I wished you were there.|- It would've been a little odd though...

with you and me and Socrates...

and your sleeping husband.

Yeah. A little.

And with the monarchy's demise,|two new systems...

of government... the first,|ruled by the few, known as?

Mr. Brewster.|Uh, tyranny?

In spirit, perhaps,|but etymologically, no.

More precisely, oligarchy.

Tyranny is what we have|in this classroom. It works.

Mr. Bllythe?|Antisthenes: "We must have richness of soul."

Oh, it was, uh, Heraclitus, when he said a|man's character is his fate or his destiny.

Precisely. "Not to know what happened|before you were born...

is to be forever a child."

Mr.Julius Caesar...

is a Saint Benedict's tradition.

It is a contest held each year|in two phases.

The first, is a series of quizzes...

that will narrow the field|of competitors to three.

The second|is a public tournament...

where these three will take the stage|at Saint Benedict's Hall...

and answer questions|about Roman history,.

The last man standing|will be declared the winner...

and crowned|Mr.Julius Caesar.

Your father was a winner was he not, Mr. Bllythe?|- Yes, sir.

Would you point him out|to us, please?

A noble honor indeed.

Well, carry on, gentlemen.

Thank you, Mr. Woodbridge.

Finally, Caesararrives|at the Rubicon,

a small little river|which divides... Mr. Field?

Cisalpine Gaul from Italy.|- Correct.

He gathers his one legion around him.|A legion comprised of how many men... Mr. Grey?

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