Sentence examples for ancient academic from inspiring English sources

Like the skeptics, Agrippa as rhetorician questioned his (or anyone's) ability to attain absolute certainty, but unlike the extreme (or Pyrrhonist) skeptics of ancient times and like such ancient Academic skeptics as Cicero, he believed that on many issues, probable truth could be demonstrated.

I chuckled at the idea of the school relegating a popular work of fiction like Prozac Nation to a library pregnant with ancient, academic textbooks.

I chuckled to myself that they had relegated a popular work of fiction like Prozac Nation to a library pregnant with ancient, academic textbooks.

Again, he was quoting someone else - in fact, an ancient German academic joke - about the existence of both Catholic and Protestant faculties of theology at several German universities, which thus, the joke went, are unique in having two departments devoted to the study of something that doesn't exist at all.

It has been said that scholars of classical antiquity reveal more about contemporary culture than about ancient times: that the academic papers on homosexuality in fifth-century B.C. Greece or the role of women in the Roman Empire mirror the concerns of our own historical moment.

Against Erasmus' skeptical arguments he employed arguments taken from ancient Stoic criticism of Academic skepticism, probably borrowed from a patristic source he knew well, St. Augustine's Contra Academicos (Boyle 1983 55 56).

He is the author of 15 books on the ancient world for both academic and general readers, including "Alexander the Great and Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths".

This is not to single Egypt out for vilification, though Ms. Mastrandrea did say that their friends, who are academics studying ancient epigraphy, did tell their two small children: "We're bringing you to live in a place called Luxor for six months.

Although Autrecourt was no skeptic — on the contrary, he attacked the "Academics" or ancient Skeptics — his philosophical stance challenges the prevailing Aristotelian tradition.

Online Egyptological Bibliography Bibliographic database of academic literature on ancient Egypt.

They give a good indication of the breadth and diversity of the academic programme, including Ancient and Medieval Astronomy, modern Chemistry and Physics East Asiaa, Islamic Societies and the Pacific Circle; Meteorology, Oceanography, Mathematics and Scientific Instruments; Bibliography, History of Technology, and Gender Studies.