Sentence examples for second centuries from inspiring English sources

This fine Greek sculpture was made between the third and second centuries BC, and is probably from the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea.

The urns confiscated this year were identified as belonging to the Cacni family, a wealthy local clan, and date from the third and second centuries B.C.

We can no more step out of our historical setting, our time and place, our human condition, than Christians in the first or second centuries could.

Dr. Murdoch said Mr. Aldon reminds him of the hermits who used to live in caves in Greece and Turkey in the first and second centuries.

In the later Hellenistic period, the third and second centuries BC, the nature and existence or nonexistence of the gods was reconsidered by many schools of philosophy.

Nearby displays jump forward to the third and second centuries B.C., with artifacts excavated in the late 1930s from the city known as Ai Khanum.

He lived in the second century BC.

According to Morales, Bolloré told him, "It's you who controls the raw materials for the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries.

The late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.

That's nineteenth-century".

Seventeenth-century Paris.