His earlier love for literature and history remained with him for his entire life.

The consensus is that " the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th century BC, the Iliad being composed before the Odyssey, perhaps by some decades ," i. e. earlier than Hesiod, the Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature.

Scholar Isabelle Onians asserts that although " the Mahāyāna ... very occasionally referred contemptuously to earlier Buddhism as the Hinayāna, the Inferior Way ," " the preponderance of this name in the secondary literature is far out of proportion to occurrences in the Indian texts.

While these writings display some limited continuities with the earlier medical ideas known from the Vedas, historians have been able to demonstrate direct historical connections between early Ayurveda and the early literature of the Buddhists and Jains.

The doctrine of emptiness is also found in earlier Theravada Buddhist literature.

Postmodernism in music and literature began to take hold earlier.

* American Heritage Dictionary: " Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: ' It roadhouse is so architecturally interesting ... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock.

Rodin taught him the value of objective observation, and under this influence Rilke dramatically transformed his poetic style from the subjective and sometimes incantatory language of his earlier work into something quite new in European literature.

The contemporary Georgian chronicles enshrined Christian morality and patristic literature continued to flourish, but it had, by that time, lost its earlier dominant position to secular literature, which was highly original, even though it developed in close contact with the neighboring cultures.

If it was true, this would be a step towards the reunification of Poland, and Henry IV, who was denigrated particularly in the earlier literature, was really a conscious promoter of Poland interests and a true patriot ( apart from the merits of raising the awareness of the problems of ethnic and linguistic diversity in the Middle Ages ).

Some of these date back to earlier Persian, Indian and Arabic literature, while others were original to the One Thousand and One Nights.

An early example of the " story within a story " technique can be found in the One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to earlier Persian and Indian storytelling traditions, most notably the Panchatantra of ancient Sanskrit literature.

This new literature in Czech consisted largely of epic poetry of two types: the legend and the knightly epic, both based on apocryphal tales from the Bible, as well as hagiographic legends of earlier periods.

The spread of literature and knowledge was enhanced by the earlier invention of woodblock printing and the 11th-century invention of movable type printing.

It is farthest removed from the earlier Buddhist traditions, and incorporates concepts of messianism and astrology not present elsewhere in Buddhist literature.

This theory has since been widely discredited, but the discovery of the jarchas raises the question of the extent of literature ( oral or written ) in the 11th century and earlier.

According to Brian A. Sparkes " The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica ... however, we have detailed images of the episode, 150 years earlier, dated to around 400 BC.

Engaging as part of leadership style has been mentioned in various literature earlier.

Moreover, it must be borne in mind that, given the significance of distance as a cultural isolator in earlier centuries, the historical development of literature did not occur at an even pace across the world.

It enabled China to develop its civilization ( through widespread literature and literacy ) much faster than it had with earlier writing materials ( primarily bamboo and silk ).

These comprised earlier classic Jewish ethical texts ( mussar literature ), as well as a new literature for the movement.

The phrase ' Welsh writing in English ' has replaced the earlier ' Anglo-Welsh literature ' because many Welsh writers in English have felt that the latter usage failed to give " Welsh status to Welsh people who, not speaking Cymraeg, nevertheless do not feel at all English ".

* Tian ( Heaven ) appeared in literature c. 700 BC, possibly earlier as dating depends on the date of the Shujing ( Book of Documents ).

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

The earlier New Haven development was public housing, so it easily leaped over the problems met in a private venture.

It was stated earlier that one purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of variability of Onset and Completion in each of the 21 growth centers somewhat beyond that provided by the data in Tables 1 and 2.

In an earlier case, Kingan & Co. v. United States, an American corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring the stock of a British corporation in exchange for its own stock and then liquidating the British corporation.

In earlier years, the preservation of food was essentially related to survival.

At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier.

As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.

The route which he had traveled and which he believed might develop into a trade route was followed by his settlers earlier than he might have expected.

Should any slave change his mind and request to leave earlier, Giffen was to provide passage at once.

It is possible that Morse told the woman it was 11:20, but it could have been earlier, since she did serve dinner on time.

Docherty was damned if he would make a fool of himself again the way he had earlier over the laundry truck.

Only then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.