Sentences with phrase «into ancient literature»

Ever since the work of the great philologist Erich Auerbach, scholars have recognized the note of realism that the Gospels introduced into ancient literature.

We owe a great deal, of course, to the classic cultures of Greece and Rome, but we tend to read back into the ancient literature conceptions that the classic authors did not really hold.

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Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

Of course, folly in the tradition of ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

Caves, she learned, were a recurring motif in ancient Maya art and literature: They were painted on the sides of ceramic vases, cited in songs and poems, and carved into stone monuments.

Even the ancient Mongolian literature mentions that horse riders in ancient times would set free their sick horses into the seaberry shrubberies of highlands.

His interests in mythology, ancient art, cartoons and literature are an ever - present source of inspiration that are infused into his personal mythology.