Sentence examples for roman views from inspiring English sources

The 54 Roman views didn't sell and he bequeathed them to the British Museum, which appears to have done almost nothing with them until critics and collectors rediscovered them in the 20th century.

This understanding leads to a concern with the gender of one's partner that is not found in previous Greek or Roman views, and it clearly forbids homosexual acts.

Even today, many Italian scholars reflect a somewhat Roman view of Cleopatra's role in ancient history.

Seneca summed up the Roman view of noise when he said that only weak-willed people like the Sybarites would allow themselves to be bothered by it.

To a certain extent this understanding of the emperor was the Christian reinterpretation of the ancient Roman view of the emperor as the representative of god or the gods.

If one accepts the Roman view that they fought only "just wars"—that is, only when provoked then Roman conquest emerges as "one of the most important accidents in European history," as Rome had to defend itself from threats on all sides.

(See the argument in Cicero Ac. 2.111, addressed explicitly to Philo prior to his Roman view, and its elaboration in Ac. 2.34 6 & 2.43 44. These Antiochian criticisms are echoed almost verbatim by Aenesidemus in Photius Library 212 14 3814 38).

What he said was that "the Romans viewed Jesus as just some goofball that got nailed to the cross".

The Romans viewed hunting with less favour as a sport for gentlemen and left it to inferiors and professionals.

The Franks and Alemanni, who preserved limited contacts with Germans living outside the boundaries of the Roman Empire, remained pagan, which the Romans viewed less harshly than heresy.

The later Romans viewed the abolition of the kingship and its replacement by the consulship as marking the beginning of the republic.