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Episodes In Family Life: Usually his magazine covers show daily happenings in small towns or episodes in family life, portrayed in realistic detail and telling an unmistakably clear story.ROCKWOOD, fty, Tennessee; in Roane County; altitude 910 feet. It is situated on the Tennessee Central, and Southern railroads, 33 miles west-southwest of Knoxville, in a region that raises peaches and strawberries and has coal and iron deposits.
Paternal Pozver.—The patriarchal organization of the Roman family gave its head an unrestricted power (patria potestas) over all other members of the family, a power of life and death. Ordinarily no member of the family could have property of his own; all acquisitions made by family members belonged to the father. Remedies against cruelty or arbitrariness of the father were a family council, which he consulted before taking a drastic measure against a person under his power, an official blame by the censors, and later a complaint with the competent authority.
Giinther was born in Striegau, Lower Silesia, on April 8, 1695. His literary bent early brought conflict into his life because of family pressure that he study medicine. Rejecting his family, he chose poetry and a life of poverty. His poem Peace of Passarowitz (1718) brought him into prominence, but his style of living cost him the patronage of Frederick Augustus of Saxony. Giinther apparently squandered his brief life in dissipation and died in Jena, Thuringia, on March 15, 1723. His collected poems appeared at Bres-lau in four posthumous volumes (1723-1735). |
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