Sentence examples for ancient reputation from inspiring English sources

The Shona have preserved their ancient reputation for prophecy, divination, and rainmaking; they believe in Mwari, a supreme being.

Despite its ancient reputation as the voluptuous capital of an empire with a taste for peacocks at banquets, Rome offers more-basic satisfaction, food that fed shepherds and peasants reaching back over time.

And as for the county's ancient reputation as a haunt of horse-thieves, reflect on this verse published in the York Courant to mark the execution of Essex man Dick Turpin in 1739: Full oft, the south has sneered at our northern clime And horse-stealing has been called a county crime But no longer will we stand such jokes This rogue is theirs, and we the honest folks.

In recent years, researchers have discovered that Neanderthals made tools, buried their dead, used fire and maybe even adorned themselves with feathers, bucking our ancient cousins' reputation as stocky brutes.

Its reputation in ancient Chinese medicine as an aphrodisiac is not scientifically proven, but particularly in elderly patients, feeling better could help everything".

Ancient Celts had a reputation for ritual human sacrifice, but not the contemporary Greeks and Romans or any of the indigenous people of Anatolia, the central plateau region of Turkey.

The appropriately epic exhibition of the work of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, famed for his paintings of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and whose reputation was kept alive among filmmakers when his work fell out of fashion, is one of the largest ever held.

England doesn't exactly have that same reputation, though Ancient Romans did mine a significant amount of gold there.

CHICAGO — The ancient Mycenaeans have a reputation as palace-builders and warriors, but they were also quite sophisticated cooks.

However exalted her reputation among the ancient literati, in Greek popular culture of the Classical period and afterward Sappho was known primarily as an oversexed predator — of men.

His poetry was mentioned or briefly quoted by Callimachus and by other ancient authors, and his poetic reputation endured for at least three centuries, as Augustan poets identified his name with great elegiac writing.