While many legends and folk-customs are thought to be ancient, for instance the tales featuring Offa of Angel and Wayland the Smith, others date from after the Norman invasion; Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood and their battles with the Sheriff of Nottingham being, perhaps, the best known.
Some of his claims about it that it had been ratified by an ancient parliament, for instance—are nonsense.
We learn about the growth of ancient cities, for instance, and we do find links in many of the things we study.
For instance, ancient China arrived at a strong centralised state far earlier than the west, in order to combat the problem of endemic civil war.
The poor soil and scant rain of ancient Greece, for instance, meant that the terrain's ability to grow grain was limited, but grape vines and olive trees grew in abundance.
Unlike earlier artists, who chose only subjects "worthy" of art's attention — episodes from ancient history, for instance, or the beauties and the terrors of nature — Weston took toilets seriously.
In ancient Greece and Rome, for instance, phallic imagery and depictions of orgiastic scenes were widely present, though it is unlikely that they fulfilled anything like the social or psychological functions of modern pornography (see phallicism).
Strontium, neodymium and oxygen isotopes have been used to provenance ancient glass, for instance in the Mediterranean area [68 74].
In historical records of ancient Greece, for instance, Plato refers to social interaction as the 'great stage of human life' (in Burns [6]).
It sounds radical, but it has some sturdy precedents: Ancient Greece, for instance, was a nonpartisan direct democracy, where certain citizens voted directly on issues.
