Sentence examples for Greco-Roman authors from inspiring English sources

Greco-Roman authors connected Osiris with the god Dionysus.

Its inhabitants, a mountain people described by Greco-Roman authors as warlike and uncivilized, were conquered by the Roman general Publius Servilius Vatia "Isauricus" in a three-year campaign, 76 74 bc.

The defeated Iron Age tribes of Britain © At the end of the Iron Age (roughly the last 700 years BC), we get our first eye-witness accounts of Britain from Greco-Roman authors, not least Julius Caesar who invaded in 55 and 54 BC.

As early as the 1st century AD, Greco-Roman authors like Pliny and Dioscorides wrote that they were ground up and drunk in wine to fix issues like jaundice and "flux" of the belly, and they were popularly used in folk medicine well into the 19th century in central Europe to fix warts, wounds, burns, ulcers, abdominal pain, headaches, toothaches, fever, and hemorrhaging.

Several modern scholars have been tempted to make identification between the Pharnavaz of the medieval Georgian tradition and the Pharasmanes of the Greco-Roman historian Arrian, a 2nd-century AD author of Anabasis Alexandri.

Archaeologically, however, Romanization in Gaul is most evident in the emergence of the Greco-Roman city.

Greco-Roman 69 kg: Filiberto Azcuy, Cuba.

Greco-Roman 85 kg: Hamza Yerlikaya, Turkey.

Greco-Roman 130 kg: Rulon Gardner, Afton, Wyo.

Greco-Roman 58 kg: Armen Nazarian, Bulgaria.

Greco-Roman 76 kg: Mourat Kardanov, Russia.