Sentence examples for roman descriptions from inspiring English sources

(Hardly any original maps survive; the ones in the exhibition were created in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from Greek and Roman descriptions).

The Romans sought to destroy Druidism because of the threat it posed to their power, and at least some Roman descriptions of the Celts must be discounted as propaganda.

(This was the first rhino seen in Europe since Roman times; descriptions of it inspired Dürer's famous but inaccurate woodcut).

The notion of clemency, as Seneca develops it, has its origin in Roman self-descriptions: clemency is a virtue that Rome exercises vis-a-vis defeated peoples.

Each association is called a 'stage' and is given a roman numeral description e.g. stage IX.

Or maybe we should take our cue from the relaxed attitudes of those continental types who publish all kinds of fiction, autofiction, almost-fiction and memoir under the description "roman".

Moreover, for the first time individual artists and their contributions to technical and stylistic development can in some cases be positively identified through Roman copies and written descriptions of their works.

C. Dahlberg; E. Langlois, Les Manuscrits du Roman de la Rose: Description et Classement; Maxwell Luria, A Reader's Guide to the Roman de la Rose; Riverside Chaucer, ed.

Roman historians modeled their description of the war's beginning on the Greek historian Thucydides' account of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.

The Roman historian Livy wrote many descriptions of religious rites of the ancient Middle East.

This 10-volume treatise contained valuable information on the scenery used for Classical tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays (farces), along with detailed descriptions of the Roman theatre, with its auditorium, orchestra, and stage backed by the scaenae frons.