Sentence examples for ancient educated from inspiring English sources
Pinpointing the origins of minghun is difficult, but scholars have found allusions to the practice in different ancient texts, including the Rites of Zhou, a guidebook of appropriate Confucian behavior written around the third century B.C. Commentators on the Confucian classics have argued that the ancient educated elite disapproved of the custom.
The argument only identifies one type of poem that the Muses call forth, namely the poem that "embellishes thousands of deeds of the ancients to educate [paideuei] later generations" (245a).
'Totally Cosmopolitan' There is a line of ancient poetry that every educated Arab can recite.
"So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land," Dr. Davies writes.
With the help of archaeologist Kevin Floerke and adventurer John Leivers (best known as the tough-as-nails Australian guide in the book, Turn Right at Machu Picchu), Stanziano plans to develop a trekking route along the ancient roads to educate travellers about what was once an extensive trade, communication and defence network for the Inca people.
Princeton's founders were well aware that the educated elite in Ancient Rome learned Homer, Greek, and Greek culture to help control passions and prevent both individual and national self-destruction.
Was the ancient Macedonian language (spoken by ancient Macedonians who had not been educated in Greek) a separate non-Greek language or an early form of Greek?
Sigurdsson was educated in classical philology, ancient history, and political theory and economics at the University of Copenhagen.
His majestic 2010 portrait of a destroyed Baghdad building, once the house of an aesthete, is full of an elegiac quality peculiarly Shadid's: "There is a line of ancient poetry," he writes, "that every educated Arab can recite.
A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was educated at the free grammar school in Barnstaple.
The highly educated Johnson specialized in the ancient technique of encaustic (wax) paintings from which she received international recognition.
