Sentences with phrase «from ancient worlds»

From the ancient world to the Renaissance, the educated classes devised shockingly effective coping mechanisms.

We actually have a good bit of evidence - more than a great many known historical persons from the ancient world, and with a lot more detail.

What is, are the words used and their meanings in the original, and translated texts from the ancient world.

Gregory took the Church from the ancient world to the beginnings of the Medieval era.

They were caught up in a barbaric culture of violence and in an absolutist theory of political power, both handed down from the ancient world.

Knowledge received from the ancient world was more likely to be true than some newfangled notion that had not been heard of before.

These and other examples from the ancient world have led several scholars to conclude that the term arsenokoites likely describes economic exploitation by some sexual means.

Hey, Jackie, if it hadn't been for the fact that the Church was there to preserve knowledge from the ancient world through the middle ages, if it hadn't created universities and hospitals, hadn't spread a moral code through a largely barbarian world, you'd still running around as unlettered and brutal as the Visigoths and the Vandals.

We must always remember that the extant writings from the ancient world represent only a small portion of what was being thought and said and even written.

Their carefully guarded secrets and techniques have been handed down directly from the ancient world, one generation of skilled artisans to the next.

Oxford, in association with the Newberry Library, has published an outstanding set that traverses the complete spectrum of world exploration, from the ancient world through current underwater and space exploration.

The museum of wine culture in Deidesheim — drinking vessels from the ancient world, from the art nouveau era and right up to today.

While the coastal areas are attractively familiar, the mountains of Albania reveal Ottoman fortresses, prehistoric dwellings, ancient citadels, the sites of battles both ancient and recent, monasteries, mosques, tombs cut into the rock side, finds from the Illyrian period, theatres from the ancient world and the fascinating city and museum of Apollonia.

10 years ago a warrior rose from the Ancient World.

Let loose in a world that begs you to explore every corner, the most valuable object Aloy owns is her Focus, a gadget from the ancient world clipped to her ear.

Other dealers in this part are showing Andean textiles from 200BC to AD1500 (one, a Huari tunic, looks very like a gloom - period Rothko), the playful ceramics of George E Ohr (the mad potter of Biloxi, as he was known, and whose work is quoted in the later paintings of Jasper Johns), and assorted «treasures from the ancient world» and stuff from neoclassical Rome.

But I'm glad to have had difficulty with my choices this year because it provoked me after a long day of lapping the marquee with only three contemporary choices to cross Regent's Park over to Frieze Masters; a new venture exhibiting art from the ancient world to the year 2000.

He drew inspiration from the ancient world and directly influenced subsequent generations of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Phyllida Barlow and Rebecca Warren.

Conflict and heritage from the ancient world to the modern day in Turin, the Mschatta Fassade — Deball «s main work from her Parergon exhibition — is shown in the Palazzo Reale's Salone delle Guardie Svizzere until September 9.

Conflict and heritage from the ancient world to the modern day» Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy March 8 - June 3, 2018 fsrr.org

By shifting direction, I mean going from abstracted figuration to overt figuration, or returning to an old form to make a new painting, or even rummaging through historical imagery from the ancient world to the modern and from high art to commercial art and comic books to get his themes.

Collections range from art historical treasures such as works on paper by Rembrandt van Rijn and David Hockney, paintings by Sir John Everett Millais and Hans Hofmann, sculpture by Hiram Powers and Louise Nevelson, as well as artifacts from the ancient world, ceramics, and textiles.

Modern European paintings and sculpture (including examples by Henry Moore, John Davies, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon) sit alongside pieces from around the globe, sculpture from the ancient world and studio ceramics.

The Discobolus (discus thrower) is one of the most famous sculptures from the ancient world and has come to mean different things to different people.

«I think each individual drawing could stand alone,» Dine has said, «but as a single work, all forty make a narrative about learning from the Ancient World.»

Not exact matches

The game takes place in London, though it's set in an alternate reality where an ancient order of knights keeps the world safe from monsters.

She and her students spend their time trying to understand how the atmosphere worked in the ancient world — sometimes finding themselves knee - deep in bogs collecting buried pollen or ash from ancient fires.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Now available online, «Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux» takes audiences deep into one of the world's last stretches of untouched, ancient, temperate rainforest and discusses a plan to protect it from logging.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Assumed, the apostles had been liars or impostors, it had emerged within weeks, because people from Palestine had accused them to be liars (note that the ancient world was as international like our modern world, because of trade).

marcus aurelius was known in ancient world to caper and cavort with FOUL UNCLEAN SPIRITS DEMONS RAISED FROM GETHENNA TO MASTERS OF NIGHT LORD OF BABYLON!!!

Saying that Jesus came to save us * from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern worlds, and how the New Testament presents it.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near EasternAncient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Easternancient Near Eastern world.

The impression we receive from the gospels, particularly the earlier ones, is that the practices commonly regarded as religious by the ancient world are never more than incidental to what He had to say.

Yet Christians believe that He chose Abraham (and not any other person in the ancient world), and from Abraham's descendants (through Isaac, but not through Ishmael, and through Jacob, but not Esau), He created for Himself a covenant people.

That ancient movement was one in which man achieved independence from his world by being called out of his identity with the cosmos to assume a place of responsibility over it.

Aliens created humans on this planet just as we are told from all ancient Civilizations around the world even the bible tells us from the book of Enoch, Ezekiel tells us they took him up into space in a ship does God need a ship?

The ancient Hebrew transition from henotheism to monotheism is an excellent example of such progress; the God of Israel was adequate for the confrontation between Israel and Egypt, but the God who could intervene in the long struggle among Israel, Assyria, and Babylon had to be the God of the whole world (cf. e.g., Amos 9:7, Isaiah 10:5 - 15).

Alexanders followers created the Egyptian city of Alexandria where the greatest repository of ancient knowledge was stored in its libraries, from books from all over the world.

He is as blind as Marx to its distinctive differences from rival systems (ancient, medieval, traditional, fascist, socialist, Euro - socialist, and third - world agrarian).

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

India has been open to the outside world from ancient times and a vigorous commercial activity went on between India and the Mediterranean world even before the Christian era.

It is not found in Buddhism nor in Hinduism; not in animism nor in pantheism; not in the religions of the ancient Greeks or Romans; nor in the religions of the Incas or the Mayans; and not even in that one other religion which also recognized a Creator separate from the created world, Islam.

From this world there was no return to simply mythical existence, but myths and other ancient traditions could yet be made to yield an expression of the hostility felt toward it.

In the ancient world salt was mainly a preservative, something to keep meat, for example, from spoiling.

Ancient Gnosticism sought deliverance from evil by severing the spirit's ties to the material world.

And thus the ancient world passed from empire to commonwealth.

Within two centuries, men of the caliber of Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Galileo, Gilbert, Newton and Boyle all arose to cut a path which enabled the modern world to emerge from the ancient one.