His readiness to discard received authority, even that of Classical authors such as Aristotle and Pliny, is impressive.
He is known from cuneiform inscriptions, the Bible and later Jewish sources, and classical authors.
The rediscovery of Classical authors, including Herodotus, fueled Renaissance interest in Egypt.
In the first half of the 14th century the intellectually curious began seeking out texts of classical authors.
Christianity brought Latin to Ireland, and the writings of both the Church Fathers and Classical authors were read and studied.
Classical authors, we are told, accounted for "around 5 percent of all printed books published in the 15th century".
The new prose they fashioned was based on bardic language and classical authors, enriched by new formations and borrowings.
Their use is mentioned by Classical authors in relation to the Thracians, Greeks, Gauls, ancient Germans, and ancient Britons.
His principal work, the Divinae institutiones, depended more on the testimony of classical authors than on that of sacred Scripture.
Known as Rhinocorura (or Rhinocolura) to classical authors, the town is mentioned from at least the 2nd century bce.
A second effect of Phillipson's chronology is to reduce to the juvenile the influence of both Presbyterianism and the classical authors.
