Sentences with phrase «fifth century b.c.»

Surviving accounts of Egyptian funerals come from the Greek historians Diodorus Siculus, who traveled in Egypt between 65 and 57 b.c., and Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the fifth century b.c.. From those reports we know that not all mummies were created equal.

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It was based upon the views of the fetus espoused by the fifth - or fourth - century b.c. Hippocratic corpus and Aristotle's fourth - century b.c.. On the Generation of Animals.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.