Pea soup has been eaten since antiquity ; it is mentioned in Aristophanes ' The Birds, and according to one source " the Greeks and Romans were cultivating this legume about 500 to 400 BC.

In classical antiquity, copyists were paid for their work according to the number of stichs ( lines of verse ).

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

Others disagreed with this explanation ; the Russian-Jewish historian Solomon Lurie wrote ( in his book on antisemitism in antiquity published in 1922 ) that this explanation was arbitrary and ad hoc invented: according to the Gospels, it was the Roman soldiers, not the Jews, who mocked Christ.

Their exact status was already disputed in antiquity: according to Critias, they were " especially slaves " whereas to Pollux, they occupied a status " between free men and slaves ".

In 387 or 390, or according to others in 400, a Council of Carthage decreed that bishops, priests and deacons abstain from conjugal relations: " It is fitting that the holy bishops and priests of God as well as the Levites, i. e. those who are in the service of the divine sacraments, observe perfect continence, so that they may obtain in all simplicity what they are asking from God ; what the Apostles taught and what antiquity itself observed, let us also endeavour to keep ...

:( 2 ) that such promiscuity excludes any certainty of paternity, and that descent could therefore be reckoned only in the female line, according to mother-right, and that this was originally the case amongst all the peoples of antiquity ;

However, according to Hugh de Ferranti, not all blind biwa players of antiquity “ were completely lacking the sense of vision and knowledge of music ”.

The words do earlier appear together in print in the sentence " according Aramaic primacy among the languages ," in Lee I. Levine, Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity: conflict or confluence 1998 but only as a general expression used to note the primacy of Aramaic over other languages in specific context, and also describing " Aramaic's predominance " over Hebrew and Greek in Second Temple Jerusalem.

* According to Georgiev, although some Albanian toponyms descend from Illyrian, Illyrian toponyms from antiquity have not changed according to the usual phonetic laws applying to the evolution of Albanian.

The painted frieze above the astronomical clock shows five deities from classical antiquity, each representing both a day of the week and a planet in their order according to Ptolemaic cosmology.

In the late 1950s, Bronze Age — or, according to some, Iron Age — tools and necklaces, attesting to Biella's antiquity, were found in the Burcina Reserve.

In antiquity, systems of measurement were defined locally, the different units were defined independently according to the length of a king's thumb or the size of his foot, the length of stride, the length of arm or per custom like the weight of water in a keg of specific size, perhaps itself defined in hands and knuckles.

In antiquity, Nysa was also known as Athymbra ( Ancient Greek Ἄθυμβρα ); according to Strabo, who started his life of study in Nysa ( which was an important center of learning in the 1st century BC ), " Nysa resulted from a synoecism of three towns that were founded by three brothers, Athymbros, Athymbrados, and Hydrelos.

According to the historian Neagu Djuvara, name Gelou is of Romanian origin and has roots from antiquity ( one settlement in ancient Thrace was named Geloupara ), while according to the historian Gyula Kristó his name may have been of Turkic or Hungarian origin.

Drapetsona during the antiquity was a region of Attic Municipality of Athens according to the administrative division of Cleisthenes.

Gan Ying travelled about the time that the Emperor Nerva adopted Trajan as his successor, but neither of them abdicated for bad omens ; the " kings " according to him resemble the Sages of legendary Chinese antiquity more than any Roman institution.

In antiquity Gerakas constituted Attica's deme of Gargittos of the Aegides tribe that was located at the mesogea land, according to the administrative model of Cleisthenes.

The Legend of the Golden Fleece goes back to antiquity, a well-known Greek myth, according to which Jason and the Argonauts stole the Golden Fleece from Colchis.

Dioscorides, who according to the Arabs is the greatest botanist of antiquity, recommended hemp ’ s seeds to “ quench geniture ” and its juice for earaches.

* Forefather Čech ( antiquity ), legendary figure, one of three brothers ( Lech, Čech and Rus ) who, according to folk mythology, founded regional Slavic nations

The charioteer has lost many features, including his chariot and his left arm, but he stands as a tribute to athletic art of antiquity.

The origin of the different Moony or Mooney families is lost in antiquity.

* 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

In antiquity this form of " hard primitivism ", whether admired or deplored ( both attitudes were common ), co-existed in rhetorical opposition to the " soft primitivism " of visions of a lost Golden Age of ease and plenty.

Many classic works of antiquity that would otherwise have been lost were translated into Arabic and Persian and later in turn translated into Turkish, Hebrew and Latin.

This careful preservation of the primitive wooden appearance in the stone fabric of the newer buildings was scrupulously observed and this suggests that it may have been dictated by religion rather than aesthetics, although the exact reasons are now lost in the mists of antiquity.

As for the prefix of spri -, more debate is required, as its origin seems to be lost to antiquity.

The roots of the practice are lost in antiquity.

Although the origins of the group are lost in antiquity, the largest number of species and the most primitive forms are found in the Old World, suggesting that this family originated there.

It is one of the best examples of High Middle Ages architecture in northern Italy ; it now hosts, after a decade-long renovation, the City Museum, with a rich Roman section ; one of the masterpieces is the bronze statue of a winged Victory, originally probably a Venus, converted in antiquity into the Victory by adding the wings ; it is said to be in the act of writing the winner's name on her shield ( now lost ).

Although the origins of the group are lost in antiquity, the largest number of species and the least specialised forms are found in the Old World, suggesting that this family originated there.

Both the Digambara and Shvetambara believe that the " purest " Jain teachings were contained within the Purvas, which have been mostly lost to antiquity.

It is both a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, and an attempt to rekindle something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented.

However, it lost its importance in antiquity.

The origin of the name PETAWAWA is lost in antiquity, but legend has it that it is an Algonquian Indian word pronounced PETWEWE.

The treatise may be considered " the first attempt at general epistemology bequeathed to us by antiquity ," although this may only be because we have lost fifth-century rhetorical works that took a similar approach.

Nsukka town has very ancient culture and tradition which is almost lost in antiquity due to the late awakening of the indigenes to the relevance and necessity of the pursuit of intellectual erudition and research.

Many classic works of antiquity that would otherwise have been lost were translated into Arabic and Persian and later in turn translated into Turkish, Hebrew and Latin.

This play, along with the also lost Niobe, are two famous examples cited in antiquity of the often-discussed theme of the " Aeschylean silence ".

However, the remarkable secret of their design and the method of casting — known only to the Chinese in antiquity — was lost in later generations and was not fully rediscovered and understood until the 20th century.

A series of nine small internal wood panels from an unknown palace, perhaps in Naples, of which eight are now in the English Royal Collection, and one in the Louvre, give an idea of the liveliness and quality of these lost works: " Polidoro learned from Raphael the idea of re-creating the decoration of classical antiquity ; but he did so with a wit, freedom and spirit of his own ".

Many bronze statues or parts of statues in antiquity were cast using the lost wax process.

In late antiquity, the foremast lost most of its tilt, standing nearly upright on some ships.