Sentence examples for extant sources from inspiring English sources

That story doesn't surface in the extant sources until Plutarch, half a millennium later.

Their principal concern is with the sacrifice, and they are the oldest extant sources for the history of Indian ritual.

In addition to the Theology, there are two other extant sources for the Arabic Plotinus materials.

The extant sources agree that Socrates was often to be found where youths of the city spent their time.

Unfortunately, extant sources on Shen Dao do not make it possible to reconstruct his views with any confidence.

His comedy, Clouds, was produced in 423 when the other two writers of our extant sources, Xenophon and Plato, were infants.

The earliest extant source for the story is the Chronica (under the year 1057) of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236).

The oldest extant source that clearly states that Earth is a sphere and that gives a sound argument to support the claim is Aristotle's On the Heavens (c. 350 bce), but this knowledge likely went back several generations earlier.

A great deal more is known about the neo-Hittite states of Syria in the 10th century than about those of inner Anatolia, because much of the extant source material is Assyrian and the Assyrian kings had not yet penetrated into Cilicia and Cappadocia.

According to Democritus, for example, house-building and weaving were first invented by imitating swallows and spiders building their nests and nets, respectively (fr D154; perhaps the oldest extant source for the exemplary role of nature is Heraclitus fr D112).

The final major extant source for the period is the universal history (Bibliotheca historica) of the 1st century BC Sicilian, Diodorus Siculus.