This play, The Persians, is the only extant classical Greek tragedy concerned with recent history ( very few of that kind were ever written ) and it is a useful source of information about that period.

The historic triangular gable on top of the Haynes stand, one of the few extant at British grounds

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

The few extant fragments of satyr-plays attributed to Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate that these were a loosely structured, simple and jovial form of entertainment.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

" The very few paintings of his that are extant are far from perfect, but this is not surprising since he devoted himself more to his studies than to draughtsmanship.

The very few extant Lemnian inscriptions suggest that the Etruscans may have originated in Asia Minor, in which case subsequent syncretism between Greek Athena and Italic Minerva may have been all the easier.

The latter architecture has continued to evolve into their current zSeries mainframes which, along with the then Burroughs and Sperry ( now Unisys ) MCP-based and OS1100 mainframes, are among the few mainframe architectures still extant that can trace their roots to this early period.

Four letters written by him on that occasion, all dated 15 March 431, together with a few others, to the African bishops, to those of Illyria, of Thessalonica, and of Narbonne, are extant in re-translations from the Greek ; the Latin originals having been lost.

Of the 7, 000 extant nuraghes, only a few have been scientifically excavated.

According to a few extant documents the Melek-Chesme river ( small and shallow nowadays ) was navigable in the Bosporan times, and sea galleys were able to enter the river.

Furthermore, there are few extant large ground-dwelling species.

The extant forces available to the local Austrian generals could do no more than garrison a few fortresses, and they necessarily fell back to the mountain frontier of Bohemia and Moravia with only a small remnant of their available forces left in the garrisons.

This is significant because it is one of the very few extant references in greater antiquity ( Fourth century BC ) to Epicharmus and his work.

One of the few extant Roman inscriptions in Britain is found on the remnants of the forum ( see Verulamium Forum inscription ).

In the adult brain, reelin is expressed by GABA-ergic interneurons of the cortex and glutamatergic cerebellar neurons, and by the few extant Cajal-Retzius cells.

Several portraits of Fisher exist, the most prominent being by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection ; and a few secondary relics are extant.

There existed in antiquity an epic poem Aegimius of which a few fragments are extant,

A fragment of his epic poem on the life of Achilles — the Achilleid — is also extant, consisting of one book and a few hundred lines of a second.

Next comes the colonnaded street, whose marble columns are no longer extant ; all that remains are a few broken stubs near the old Roman baths.

there are 68 valid, extant species in the genus Nicrophorus although a few undescribed species and synonyms remain to be worked up.

A few of the " marks " presumably awarded for poems-or at least measuring their " value "-are extant in the margin of the Book of Taliesin.

Very few pre-1978 color episodes of the Procter and Gamble-sponsored shows survive, with most extant episodes preserved as monochrome kinescopes.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Assyria lasted a few more years after the loss of its fortress, but attempts by Egyptian Pharaoh Neco II to rally the Assyrians failed due to opposition from king Josiah of Judah, and it seemed to be all over by 609 BC.

However, the Council would determine ( with the exception of 13 Egyptian bishops ) that this was an issue of wording and not of doctrine ; a committee of bishops appointed to study the orthodoxy of the Tome using Cyril's letters ( which included the twelve anathemas ) as their criteria unanimously determined it to be orthodox, and the Council, with few exceptions, supported this.

In particular, this is true of a few gods who, at various times in history, rose to supreme importance in Egyptian religion.

Christian monasticism first appeared in the Eastern Roman Empire a few generations before Benedict of Nursia, in the Egyptian desert.

He called it " cursive Coptic " because, although it had few similarities with the later Coptic script, he was convinced that it was used to record some form of the Coptic language ( the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian ).

Riegl traced formalistic continuity and development in decorative plant forms from Ancient Egyptian art and other ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the classical world to the Islamic arabesque ; while the Kunstwollen has few followers today, his basic analysis of the development of forms has been confirmed and refined by the wider corpus of examples known today.

Since there are few documents on site with datable contents ( such as an Egyptian scarab ) and since no dendrochronology has yet been performed upon the remains here, the events are listed here according to Helladic period material culture.

Middle Egyptian was spoken from about 2000 BC for a further 700 years when Late Egyptian made its appearance ; Middle Egyptian did, however, survive until the first few centuries AD as a written language, similar to the use of Latin during the Middle Ages and that of Classical Arabic today.

Literary Coptic gradually declined such that within a few hundred years, Egyptian bishop Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa found it necessary to write his History of the Patriarchs in Arabic.

What invariably attracts the attention of the reader of a Coptic text, especially if it is written in the Sa ' idic dialect, is the very liberal use which is made of Greek loan words, of which so few, indeed, are to be found in the Ancient Egyptian language.

A few are designated by the country of origin such as a Brown Egyptian or Red African leaving tremendous latitude as to what is called what.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented e. g. in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

The introduction of Christianity and Muslim beliefs followed as well, and by the sixth century AD only a few vestiges of Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs remained, although the cult of Isis had spread to the ends of the Roman Empire.

The film was broadcast to several hundred people worldwide over a CU-SeeMe reflector at Point of Presence Company's offices in downtown and then a few minutes, it was projected at The Egyptian in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Within a few generations, all Egyptian elements disappeared from everyday life.

There are a few survivals of the grand Egyptian 16th century carpets, including one almost as good as new discovered in the attic of the Pitti Palace in Florence, whose complex patterns of octagon roundels and stars, in just a few colours, shimmer before the viewer.

Saadia Gaon, David ben Merwan al-Mukkamas, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas, to name a few, knew of at least some of the Mutazilite work, particularly Avicennism and Averroism, and the Renaissance and the use of empirical methods were inspired at least in part by Arabic translations of Greek, Jewish, Persian and Egyptian works translated into Latin during the Renaissance of the 12th century, and taken during the Reconquista in 1492.

A few weeks after UNSCOP released its report, Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League, was quoted by an Egyptian newspaper as predicting that Palestine would be overrun by Muslim volunteers.

A few years after their graduation, in the summer of 1963, the " old Kirks ", already a married couple living in a small bedsit, metamorphose into the " new Kirks " when one day, while Howard is at the university where he has a job as a lecturer, Barbara has spontaneous casual sex with an Egyptian student.

In July 1956, just a few days after the fourth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the Egyptian government under President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the canal.