Sentences with phrase «ancient authors»

While recent research helps confirm the testimony of ancient authors, little press is given to such studies.

As a schoolboy classicist, brightest of his peers, he graded ancient authors as if competitors with him for academic prizes: Thucydides «desperately dull and tedious,» Plato and Horace «charming,» Homer a «giant.»

It is common for ancient authors to refer to beheading and the sword even when many of those they are speaking of were executed by other means.

Once again, Matthew cites multiple ancient authors, including Philo, Plato, and Josephus, to show how the terms «natural» and «unnatural» were used in ancient writings.

One ancient author suggested that the way parents treated their children reflected the way they themselves were treated by their rulers.

One is the interchangeable usage of terms Rakshasas and Asuras (which even ancient authors and poets have done).

Few if any ancient authors are more needful and deserving of the Landmark treatment than Julius Caesar.

Boulding's translation offers English readers the possibility of hearing the voice of an ancient author «speaking in my ear» — just as Augustine claimed, in book 12 of the Confessions, to bear God's dictation.

This was the sect of the Essenes, described by three ancient authors: the naturalist Pliny the Elder and the Jewish Hellenists Philo and Josephus.

The problem with this is that ancient authors were high - context communicators.

Adds Robson: «We can admire the organizational and arithmetical skills of its ancient author but can no longer treat him as a far - sighted genius.»