Sentence examples for surviving literature from inspiring English sources
Hotan was a great centre of Buddhism during the 1st millennium ce, and all the surviving literature in Khotanese is either Buddhist or coloured by Buddhism.
He is the only early author whose work is well represented in the corpus of surviving literature (21 plays judged authentic by Marcus Terentius Varro, Rome's greatest scholar).
The genre of "tales and stories" is probably the least represented genre from surviving literature of the Middle Kingdom and Middle Egyptian.
Among the indigenous languages of the Americas, the extensive corpus of surviving literature in Nahuatl dating as far back as the 16th century may be considered unique.
Indeed, Reds and Whites are only rarely mentioned in the surviving literature, although their continued activity is documented in inscriptions and in curse-tablets.
"You know people say, is there an American tradition surviving in literature, and yes, our tradition is the incredible variety of voices," she said.
The earliest surviving kāvya literature was written by a Buddhist, Aśvaghoṣa, said to have been a contemporary of the Kuṣāṇa (Kushān) king Kaniṣka (1st century ad).
The Pyramid Texts are the earliest surviving religious literature incorporating poetic verse.
According to Thomas L. Heath (1861 1940), no specific attribution of the theorem to Pythagoras exists in the surviving Greek literature from the five centuries after Pythagoras lived.
Although surviving Latin literature consists almost entirely of Classical Latin, an artificial and highly stylised and polished literary language from the 1st century BC, the actual spoken language was Vulgar Latin, which significantly differed from Classical Latin in grammar, vocabulary, and eventually pronunciation.
Henry Adams (1838 1918) owes his place in American letters chiefly to his book on his education; in 20th-century English letters, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Leonard Woolf, and Stephen Spender may similarly survive in literature through autobiographical works.
