Sentence examples for antiquity time from inspiring English sources

In late antiquity time takes the form of a demon entwined with snakes (Aion).

In antiquity, time periods were recorded by the names of the ephors on a list that dated back to 754 bc.

On the contrary, the impression slowly developed that since late antiquity times (or perhaps even earlier) the Sards had not enjoyed inhabiting the angular Euclidean shapes of buildings that rose on plans with a classical structure.

Ghiberti also wrote I Commentarii, three treatises on art history and theory from antiquity to his time.

The file was unknown in early antiquity, during which time smoothing was done with abrasive stone or powder or with sharkskin, the granular surface of which approximates sandpaper.

At the same time, antiquity is prized, so any new carvings the masters produce are treated in a variety of ways to make them look old.

Held every four years between August 6 and September 19, they occupied such an important place in Greek history that in late antiquity historians measured time by the interval between them an Olympiad.

Ms. Washburn was editor, with John S. Major, of "World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse From Antiquity to Our Time" (W. W. Norton, 1998), an updated and expanded version of Mark Van Doren's 1928 "Anthology of World Poetry".

He rightly commends Byzantium for preserving the ideals, and aesthetics, of classical antiquity at a time when Europe was subsiding into savagery.However, in this abridgment of his three-volume history, Lord Norwich appears to feel that such admiration speaks for itself.

From late antiquity to the time of the Counter-Reformation, Western art was essentially the art of the church; both lay and secular patrons commissioned works of art that illustrated important Christian themes and stood as testimony to their own faith.

The history of wind power evolution from antiquity to contemporary time is presented.