Sentences with phrase «in ancient literature»

I as an atheist will speak out against horrifying children to make them believe in ancient literature.

-- it concludes with the highest praise of the strong, powerful, autonomous woman anywhere in ancient literature.

The silver - blue cats with the emerald - green eyes are said to date to the 14th century based on their depiction in ancient literature.

so that they could not keep their eyes open (a Hellenistic concept, with many parallels in ancient literature!)

The more one perceives in ancient literature, whether of Judea or Greece, values of permanent validity, the more one tends to lift them out of their original frameworks of concept and present them in modern terms and ways of thinking.

Regarding malakoi, Matthew notes that most uses of the word in ancient literature are not related to same - sex behavior but rather to men who were self - indulgent and enslaved to their passions... for women.

This admiration of nature finds its climax in the book of Job, where the wonders of the natural order are used for a didactic purpose unique to the Bible, and possibly in all ancient literature: to make the point that humanity's whole attitude to the created order is wrong, because it is totally egoistic, totally anthropocentric.

Where in ancient literature can one find a more reverential tribute to the good woman than in Proverbs, chapter 31?

Amazingly, I found spiders» webs and many other materia medica mentioned in the ancient literature when my wife and I visited the...

Magical numbers abound in ancient literature.

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