The etchings originally illustrated two popular literary documents: "The Adventures of Chichikov," by Russian poet and novelist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), also known as "Les Ames Mortes" (translation: "The Dead Souls"); and "Selected Fables," as told by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), a French classical author.
The two words were distinguished in a broader sense by ancient Classical authors, who used pathos when referring to the violent emotions and ethos to mean the calmer ones.
Earlier in the Roman world, there had been references to Saracens (Greek: Sarakenoi) by late classical authors in the first three centuries ad, the term being then applied to an Arab tribe living in the Sinai Peninsula.
The concept dates from the mid-14th century when it first appeared in Inquisition records, although revels and feasts mentioned by such classical authors as the Romans Apuleius and Petronius Arbiter may have served as inspiration.
The colloquy ends not with a philosophical conclusion but with a friendly consensus that the noblest and best works by classical authors who wrote on moral issues are harmonious with the Christian faith, and perhaps providentially intended to prepare the Roman world to accept the new religion (CWE 39 171 243).
His was a double existence; largely unsuspected by colleagues, he spent his free time in the British Museum, examining manuscripts by classical authors, and publishing his findings in learned journals.
He was the first classical author to write a doxography, a compendium of a variety of intellectual views.
Each of these disciplines had a body of literature in which its principles and problems had been investigated by Classical authors, whose positions had been, in turn, stated, discussed, criticized, or developed by various commentators.
In his Historia regum Britanniae, Geoffrey of Monmouth "invented history" by drawing on classical authors, the Bible, and Celtic tradition to create the story of a British kingdom, to some extent paralleling that of Israel.
Their use is mentioned by Classical authors in relation to the Thracians, Greeks, Gauls, ancient Germans, and ancient Britons.
Of the Iberian tribes mentioned by classical authors, the Bastetani were territorially the most important and occupied the Almería region and mountainous Granada region.
