Sentence examples for ancient authors from inspiring English sources

He was a great admirer of Proclus whom he considered an authority among ancient authors.

It's not for a lack of evidence from ancient authors.

Through the researches of the Alexandrian scholars, texts of ancient authors were preserved.

This corrected those who credited the phrase to ancient authors, including some apparently nonexistent ones.

He sought out manuscripts of ancient authors for scholarly reasons; he was not a "book dealer".

Among the ancient authors who mention him are Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar, and Ovid.

It is a scholarly show, big on dates and attentive to ancient ways and ancient authors from all over.

The ancient authors of the I-Ching might have understood its potential – and its pitfalls – even better than we do.

But this reflects a deep respect for the ancient authors the detractors of Chinese medicine sometimes lack.

These practices, extensively adopted by the Romans, are explicitly attributed by the ancient authors to the religion of the Etruscans.

As was typical of ancient authors, he had no conception of character as developing through the course of a lifetime.