Despite its setting, Mr. Harris says, the book is a modern novel, absorbing Roman characters, notably Pliny the Elder -- scholar-commander of the imperial fleet -- into a tale of imperial hubris that, after the invasion of Iraq, he depicts as particularly relevant to present-day America.
UNICEF Representative Dr Jama Gulaid commended the organizers of the debate – the teachers, Siphofaneni Police Station Commander, elders and judges of the debate - for allowing the children to discuss issues affecting their life.
During the war Menelaus served under his elder brother Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the Greek forces.
Bo Xilai is the son of Bo Yibo, a powerful Communist Party elder and revolutionary Red Army commander.
"God willing, I will run the administration of Kandahar with the advice of the local people, tribal elders and mujahedeen commanders," Mr. Agha told The A.P. An aide to Mr. Karzai said he would travel very soon to Kabul.
The elder Schwarzkopf was the founding commander of the New Jersey State Police and was in charge of the investigation that led to the 1934 arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was convicted and later executed for kidnapping and killing the toddler son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh.
Several worshipers were killed, and some elders said a high-ranking commander of the Shabab insurgent group who preached there on Saturday may have been among the wounded.
"If the Taliban shoots from that side, and you are on this side, and I am in between?" he said to the Marines at a meeting arranged by a commander and local elders over the weekend.
A former rebel commander said that an elder belonging to Colonel Qaddafi's tribe had reached out to negotiate a cease-fire in Surt, Reuters reported.
The able commander Nicephorus Phocas the Elder was recalled from his successful campaigns against the Lombards in south Italy to assist in the Balkans.
