Commius

01Roman officer Volusenus struck Commius in the head with a sword during a supposed parley; Commius escaped and swore never to set eyes on a Roman again.
02Commius later negotiated a formal peace with Mark Antony on the sole condition that he never be required to enter Roman presence.
03He eventually crossed to Britain, founded a dynasty among the Atrebates tribe, and minted coins bearing his own name — the only Gallic rebel to build a kingdom afterward.

01Cixous published 'The Laugh of the Medusa' in Signs in 1976; it introduced 'écriture féminine' — writing that flows from the female body — to Anglophone feminism.
02She argued that the Western philosophical tradition had mapped 'activity/passivity, sun/moon, man/woman' as a death sentence built into language itself.
03The essay ends with a direct imperative: 'Write yourself. Your body must be heard.' — an instruction, not an analysis.

General Tomoyuki Yamashita

Messenia , homeland of Sparta's helot population, from Mount Ithome .

Caesar trusted Commius enough to send him as personal ambassador to Britain — then ordered him assassinated mid-mission. Commius survived, defected, fought on for years, and finally escaped Caesar's reach by sailing into darkness.