Sentences with phrase «ancient historians»

Ancient historians tell us that severe hardships occurred when that crucial harvest was disrupted by war or social unrest.

He felt free, as other ancient historians felt free, to give an arrangement to his materials which was not necessarily chronological but brought out their meaning as he understood it.

The tendency towards uniformity in these speeches has been explained as due to the common practice of ancient historians who invented speeches suited to the occasions they were describing.

The story of him killing the babies and toddlers after Jesus» birth (Matthew 2:16) doesn't surprise modern historians and wouldn't have warranted a mention from ancient historians.

Last week I attended a wonderful conference in the university town of Tübingen, Germany, on «Debt: The First 3500 Years,» to bring ancient historians together to discuss David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years.

However, ancient historians such as Josephus, who delighted in listing Herod's crimes, do not mention what would have been Herod's greatest crime by far.

Ancient historians often speculate about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had gone west instead of east.

It's at least clear that Thucydides, in many ways the most skeptical and careful of ancient historians, adhered to conventions of «reporting» that a modem historian or newspaper reporter would not be permitted to adopt.

«You can never tell from where an idea will spring, whether from an ancient historian, an art critic, an economist, a journalist or even a politician.»

Ancient historians — notably Josephus — are notoriously unreliable; the whole notion of objectivity and accurate recording didn't even enter their minds.

Though the lands at the heart of today's Europe were completely outside of the visual field of the ancient historian, the formation of the Hellenistic states and the Roman Empire led to the establishment of a «continent» that would be the basis for the later Europe.

In any case, it is quite possible that in his account of the trial, following the practice of some ancient historians, Mark wrote what he thought would have been said, rather than attempting to give a verbatim record of the trial's proceedings.

The ancient historian Celsus mentioned its use for fevers, and Josephus said that Herod was given an oil bath in an attempt to cure him of his deadly disease.

The author apparently used to some extent the liberty which all ancient historians claimed (after the example of Thucydides), of composing speeches which are put into the mouths of the personages of the story.

Of the old church an ancient historian said, «The church in the first three centuries won the empire because it outlived, it outthought, and it outdied the pagan world» — including intellectual and artistic achievement.

Tom Wright explains why, as an ancient historian, the resurrection of Jesus from death makes historical sense.

It should be added that Thucydides did not provide the only model known to ancient historians, in any event; Polybius, in the second century BC., severely criticized some of his predecessors for inventing speeches and said that the historian's business was to record what was actually said.

The idea that Jesus never existed is something that no ancient historian would take seriously for a minute.

I am sorry to disappoint you Ms. Atheist Sherron Teal, but the vast majority of the world's BEST scholars all agree that Jesus of Nazareth absolutely DID exist and there is plenty of evidence in the writings of ancient historians to prove it.