Sentence examples for archaic age from inspiring English sources
If the earlier Archaic period was an age of hospitality, the later Archaic age was an age of patronage.
The archetypal event of the Archaic age, however, was the 6th-century entertainment by Cleisthenes of Sicyon of the suitors for the hand of his daughter Agariste.
The close connection between athletic success and military values has been noted; there was an equally close connection between athletic and political achievement, and not just in the Archaic age.
Thus, the tyrants of the Archaic age of ancient Greece (c. 900 500 bce)—Cypselus, Cleisthenes, Peisistratus, and Polycrates were popular, presiding as they did over an era of prosperity and expansion.
Croix published his best-known work, "The Class Struggle in the Ancient World, From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests," an enormous book that swept over the entire course of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, identifying slavery and oppression as central weaknesses.
In the meantime, the subjugation of Aegina, a great city of the Archaic age, whose proud Dorianism and traditions of seafaring and hospitality are stressed in lines of great beauty by Pindar in his Nemean Odes and elsewhere, was an event of cardinal importance.
Witten's old-school, lumbering style makes him look somewhat archaic in this age of Rob Gronkowskis and Jimmy Grahams.
Of course, all this would be totally archaic in our age of the Internet, Interstate and iPhone.
Elsewhere, there is an outbreak of grumpiness as VS Naipaul and Derek Walcott feuded after Walcott launched a stinging attack on the Nobel laureate, in verse, Wendy Cope rules herself out of the poet laureateship by describing it as "ridiculous" and "archaic", and the age-banding debate rumbles on bad-temperedly.
What could be more archaic in this globalized age?
Whether one is talking horse racing in Yonkers or the form that attracted high-society types to Boulder Brook, the riding of horses is an archaic pursuit in an age, let alone in an area, where the animals aren't widely used by humans anymore.
