Sentence examples for study antiquity from inspiring English sources

Those of us who study antiquity are often asked: What should I read to understand the world in which Christianity was born?

A pair of time travelers, commissioned by Hopkins (the volume, filled with fictions bearing paraphernalia of fact, reproduces his employment contract with them, complete with his King's College, Cambridge, address) and supplied with Latin and Greek brain implants, realize the dream of all who study antiquity: if only I could be there.

It lays out a timeline from Manz's 1860s childhood on the outskirts of Stuttgart, Germany, through apprenticeships in Paris and Italy, trips to Africa to study antiquities and dig for diamonds and 1890s resettlement in New York.

Poussin passed the time profitably by studying antiquities and by drawing from nature; upon his patrons' return, important commissions began to roll in.

He traveled to Rome, as countless French artists before him did, and spent three years there studying antiquities and copying Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

Mr. Lenik got hooked on the study of antiquity in 1961.

Spherical triangles were subject to intense study from antiquity because of their usefulness in navigation, cartography, and astronomy.

I know there are people who try to bridge disciplines, but I know of no institution that is committed to this for the study of antiquity".

Pärssinen and the other authors of the study in Antiquity write, "This hitherto unknown people constructed earthworks of precise geometric plan connected by straight orthogonal roads….

Already in the second half of the 17th century the scholars of the kogaku ("study of antiquity") school criticized Chu Hsi studies and advocated a return to the original ideals of Confucianism.

Christian Gottlob Heyne, who integrated the visual arts into the formal study of antiquity, also ran Göttingen's university library — one of the largest and best organized in Europe — and published reviews of some eight thousand of the books that he obtained and catalogued for the university's collection.