Sentence examples for ancient commentators from inspiring English sources

Among the ancient commentators, as well as among Israelis today, debate has persisted over whether pidyon shvuyim is an absolute value.

Was he genuinely less power-hungry and corrupt than his successors – as ancient commentators, following his own self-presentation, liked to suggest?

It is unlikely that the Eupatridae were as rigidly defined as the Bacchiadae, and the negative tradition that Solon in the early 6th century deprived them of their exclusive claim to political office may just be the excessively formal and precise way in which later ancient commentators described a positive change by which power was made more generally available than it had been before.

The modern history of the controversy begins late in the eighteenth century, when a French scholar discovered a manuscript of the Iliad from the tenth century A.D. that came complete with transcriptions of the marginal notes of ancient commentators (Aristarchus' included).

The ancient commentators on this chapter provide little additional information.

For in another fragment Timon (very unusually among ancient commentators) praises Protagoras for his agnostic attitude towards the gods.

An example of an allegorical interpretation would be that given by an ancient commentator for the Iliad, book 20, verse 67.

"The fairest women compared with Sarah are as apes compared with a human being," an ancient commentator sadly remarked, and compared with Eve, Sarah, too, resembled an ape.

The ancient commentator Rashi suggests that Jethro leaves to convert his family, yet we never hear from Moses' father-in-law again.

In addition to his athletic victories, Milo is credited by the ancient commentator Diodorus Siculus with leading his fellow citizens to military triumph over neighboring Sybaris in 510 BC.

Other influences include Neoplatonic thinkers, especially Proclus and Plotinus, as well as Ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, such as Alexander of Aphrodisias.