Sentence examples for works of roman from inspiring English sources

Many villas existed throughout the Roman Empire, and references to them are common in the works of Roman writers, especially Cicero, who had seven villas, and Pliny the Younger, who described at great length in his letters his villas in Tuscany and near Laurentum.

It's the original "make love not war" poem, and it launched a thousand works of Roman lyric poetry (and beyond) that subversively prioritise the life of love and art above the military, civic, "establishment" values of the moral majority.

The seven books of Josephus are compressed into five, but much has been added from the Antiquities of the Jews, also by Josephus, and from the works of Roman historians, and several entirely new speeches have been introduced to suit the occasion.

When Amos Vogel and his wife, Marcia, formed the avant-garde film society Cinema 16 more than 60 years ago, they created an avenue that would introduce American moviegoers to a new sensibility evident in the works of Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Alain Resnais and other filmmakers.

This show delivers: it is an archaeological treasury whose beauty is the result of exceptional loans of some of the supreme works of Roman art from the Capitoline and Vatican museums in Rome, the Louvre in Paris, and new archaeological finds such as a colossus of Hadrian, excavated recently in Turkey.

Madurai is mentioned in the works of Roman historians Pliny the Younger (61 – c. 112 CE), Ptolemy (c. 90 – c. CE 168), those of the Greek geographer Strabo 64/63 BCE – c. 24 CE), and also in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

The problems of veracity in what is termed "documentary photography" go well beyond the work of Roman Vishniac.

The features of many famous people are known to modern man only through the work of Roman sculptors on coins and medals, portrait busts, and full-length portraits.

Alana Newhouse does a good job of describing a little-known aspect of the work of Roman Vishniac and providing insights into his personality.

The award for nonfiction went to Stephen Greenblatt for his intellectually stimulating book The Swerve on the work of Roman writer Lucretius and its links to modern life.

The awards were presented Saturday night as the festival, which included a retrospective of the work of Roman Polanski and a screening of Oliver Stone's "W".