Sentence examples for second and third centuries from inspiring English sources

The rock-cut tombs of the kings of,dating from the second and third centuries BC, overhang the water.

Professor Kleiner discusses the increasing size of Roman architecture in the second and third centuries A.D. as an example of a "bigger is better" philosophy.

Dr. Thompson researched and wrote extensively on Hellenistic terra-cotta figurines, small statuettes that were ubiquitous in Greece in the second and third centuries B.C.

In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present.

Michael Lindvall, a theologian and pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, pegs Mr. Kurzweil's Singularity dogma as a modern iteration of the Gnosticism prevalent in the second and third centuries.

Christians in the second and third centuries wrote "hidden" books that promoted a rather quietistic form of scholarly Christianity, more adventurous in its theology and mythology than what was coming to be called "orthodoxy".

It is there attributed to the second and third century jurist Paul.

Celsus and Galen (first and third century respectively) both recognised the condition.

However, an economics discipline emerged only in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries in Western Europe.

Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Arabs attacked in the seventh and ninth centuries.