Sentences with phrase «from ancient historians»

«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.»

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workingcopy12 Would you accept supernatural accounts coming from some other ancient source, like Roman historians, Egyptian holy books, or Hindu scriptures?

But most ancient historians, from Herodotus and Thucydides down, recognized the literary nature of their craft.)

exhibit so that I could text my sister from the hall — she's a historian and even though her specialty is more in Canadian history, one of her secret joys is ancient civilizations.

Given that Solomon is not mentioned in any other known sources from ancient times, a modern historian also has to wonder about what to make of the Bible's description of his extensive empire, fabulous wealth and renowned wisdom.

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

According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of ancient thought and professor emeritus at the CollËge de France, philosophy today» specialized, professional, and detached from life» is but a shadow of its glorious Athenian past.

The historians of Israelite religion have traced all of the borrowings and appropriations from ancient Near Eastern culture and religion.

The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

Historians once assumed that the number of wrecks in the deep sea was negligible because ancient ships must have hugged the coastlines, but in the 1990s Ballard found eight ancient wrecks far from shore between the islands of Sicily and Sardinia (Foley was Ballard's graduate student at the time).

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

The first written records of fennel belong to the ancient Roman historian Pliny, who lived from 23 - 79 BCE and credited the plant as an herbal remedy for 22 different conditions.

In a gracefully detailed interpretative narrative that stretches from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics to twentieth - century paintings, art historian Ebert - Schifferer presents the long and fascinating history of the still life, a highly symbolic genre.

Although the exact details regarding the domestication of the dog is still unknown, historians are able to trace the origins of most of today's breeds to these ancient breeds or to the extinct breeds they came from.

Exactly how these dogs traveled in ancient times from Spain to Wales is one of those canine mysteries that historians chalk up as «lost in the mists of history,» but Welshie - type dogs appear in British art and literature going back some 250 years b.c. Welsh and English Springers emerged as separate breeds in the early 1900s.

This 8 - day cruise from Miami to Miami (roundtrip) explores with learned historians ancient sites in Belize, Cozumel and Chichén Itzá to discover the magnificent Mayan treasures of the western Caribbean.

It wasn't until an eccentric but dedicated historian writing a paper for a renowned academic journal (Retro Gamer issue 63) pieced together the complete saga of Willy's heroic exploits from fragments of scattered evidence - in the form of obscure retellings of the «Manic Miner» folk fable in ancient languages readable only via long - obsolete machines - that the whole truth was finally revealed.»

This new educational mode of the game lets everyone, from players to history - enthusiasts and non-gamers, choose between free roaming the beautiful world of Ancient Egypt to learn more about its history and daily life, or embarking on guided tours curated by historians and Egyptologists.

It revolves around the reflections of an art historian in a not too distant future, as she explores different aspects of the image from its birth in the Paleolithic through Ancient Greece and the Enlightenment, to the rise of conceptual art in the 1960s and its heritage of distrust towards aesthetic quality in «post - conceptual art».

It gathers an outstanding selection of relevant texts on memory and sorrow by ancient and modern philosophers, historians and writers from Plato to Derrida, including Aristotle, Cicero and Thomas Aquinas; Diderot, Hegel and Nietzsche; and Proust, Benjamin and Warburg.