Sentence examples for ancient authorities from inspiring English sources

Ancient authorities, such as the Roman author Pliny the Elder, had suggested that these stones fell from the sky or from the moon.

Most ancient authorities reviled democracy in Athens.

Ancient authorities also attributed to him works on ethics and medicine, and tradition made him a pupil of Pythagoras.

While a highly educated classicist and humanist, well regarded by scholars of his own and later times, he was yet singularly independent of the theories of ancient authorities.

The first really serious blow to the traditional acceptance of ancient authorities was the discovery of the New World at the end of the 15th century.

Since Plato refused to write his own metaphysics, knowledge of its final shape has to be derived from hints in the dialogues and statements by Aristotle and, to a far lesser extent, other ancient authorities.

By casting the rituals in stone the author confers ancient authority on her conviction that nurturing is not an inevitable consequence of parturition.

The desire to imbue his methods with ancient authority is understandable, but Iyengar was too modest.

Quoting Kautilya, an ancient authority on statecraft, Mr Mukherjee promised not to "collect unripe fruits".

Contemporary experience and ancient authority are brought together; the timeless past unites with the varying present: an illuminating collection.

In his manuscript of Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs (1543), Copernicus cited Aristarchus as an ancient authority who had espoused the motion of Earth.