Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )

His family was wealthy and well established ; his father Euphorion was a member of the Eupatridae, the ancient nobility of Attica, though this might be a fiction that the ancients invented to account for the grandeur of his plays.

The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations.

Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.

By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.

This would also account for the fact that Clan MacKinnon is amongst the ancient clans of Scotland.

There are several account of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian city states carrying out censuses.

His account may be true, but it seems to modern historians exaggerated and hyperbolic, and the impact of the law is recorded in no other ancient source.

The most probable ancient account of the beginning of Christianity in Rome is given by a 4th century writer known as Ambrosiaster:

For some of the ancient sources, such as Herophilus, Galen's account of their work is all that survives.

Modern historians regard the chronology as uncertain but, according to the ancient account, these predecessors included for example Dionysius of Miletus, Charon of Lampsacus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Xanthus of Lydia and, the best attested of them all, Hecataeus of Miletus.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

22 – 35 ) Fanciful though it might seem, the account has led ancient and modern scholars to infer that he did not play the lyre, or that he was not professionally trained, otherwise he would have been presented with a lyre instead.

The first account of Illyrian peoples comes from Periplus or Coastal passage an ancient Greek text of the middle of the 4th century BC.

( Polybius, the surviving ancient account closest in time to Hannibal's campaign, reports that the route was already debated.

The first account by a western European to mention the ancient language Sanskrit came from Filippo Sassetti ( born in Florence in 1540 ), a merchant who traveled to the Indian subcontinent.

Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC.

On the purpose of Acts, New Testament Scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has noted that " Luke's account is selected and shaped to suit his apologetic interests, not in defiance of but in conformity to ancient standards of historiography.

" The legal scholar Ellis Sandoz has noted that " the historically ancient and the ontologically higher law -- eternal, divine, natural -- are woven together to compose a single harmonious texture in Fortescue's account of English law.

Phonetics was studied as early as 500 BC in ancient India, with account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his 5th century BC treatise on Sanskrit.

Angelo Casanova, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Florence, finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish ; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue of the Titans, and like them was punished.

On the other hand, Hansen notes that Polybius ' exposition of Crete supplied an extremely detailed account of ancient Crete.

This commentary is one of the most valuable sources we have for the history of ancient mathematics, and its Platonic account of the status of mathematical objects was influential.

One ancient Chinese account declared that the " people of Sichuan uphold good flavour, and they are fond of hot and spicy taste.

After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.

Thucydides largely eliminated divine causality in his account of the war between Athens and Sparta, establishing a rationalistic element which set a precedent for subsequent Western historical writings.

Athenaeus ( writing in the 1st or 2nd century BCE, and drawing on the etymological speculation of Apollodorus of Athens ) notes that the red mullet is sacred to Hecate, " on account of the resemblance of their names ; for that the goddess is trimorphos, of a triple form ".

Catullus, in his account of the Minotaur's birth, refers to another version in which Athens was " compelled by the cruel plague to pay penalties for the killing of Androgeos.

Questions have also been raised about the veracity of Coubertin's account of his role in the planning of the 1896 Athens Games.

Plutarch indicates that, on account of his mother's background, Themistocles was considered something of an outsider ; furthermore the family appear to have lived in an immigrant district of Athens, Cynosarges, outside the city walls.

He becomes the first of several Kings of Athens whose life account is considered part of Greek mythology.

He becomes the first of several Kings of Athens whose life account is considered part of Greek mythology.

The account of the run near Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus ' lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

A still more significant variation in the ancient historical account appears in the writing of Plutarch in the late 1st – early 2nd century AD :" Athens was torn by recurrent conflict about the constitution.

According to this account, bonds of kinship rather than local loyalties were the decisive influence on events in archaic Athens.

The historical account of Solon's Athens has evolved over many centuries into a set of contradictory stories or a complex story that might be interpreted in a variety of ways.

While the veracity of this comic account is open to doubt, at least one modern author considers it significant that in Classical Athens, three hundred or so years after the death of Solon, there existed a discourse that associated his reforms with an increased availability of heterosexual pleasure.

He was struck with horror, along with many other Romans of the graver stamp, at the licence of the Bacchanalian mysteries, which he attributed to the influence of Greek manners ; and he vehemently urged the dismissal of the philosophers ( Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus ), who came as ambassadors from Athens, on account of the dangerous nature of the views expressed by them.

* Callistratus of Aphidnae, an Athenian orator and general, and the Athenian general, Chabrias, are brought to trial in Athens on account of the refusal of the Thebans to surrender the city of Oropus, which on Callistratus ' advice the Thebans have been allowed to occupy temporarily.

Diodorus Siculus, a compiler of histories in the time of Augustus, presents a generally favorable account of Theramenes, which appears to be drawn from the noted historian Ephorus, who studied in Athens under Isocrates who was taught by Theramenes.

In early youth he seems to have spent some time at Athens, along with his father, who had been exiled on account of his Laconian sympathies.

The bulk of this article pertains to Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC during the Athenian democracy, which encouraged foreigners to settle in Athens, on account of the part which they took in

The first recorded account showing a courier running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory is from within Lucian's prose on the first use of the word Joy as a greeting in A Slip of the tongue in Greeting.

The first known written account of a run from Marathon to Athens occurs in the works of the Greek writer Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ), in his essay On the Glory of Athens.

Traditional accounts of his life, on which we rely for biographical details, were almost entirely deduced from his poetry or were simply fiction, as for example an account by Pausanias of his supposed transformation from a lame, stupid school teacher in Athens to the mastermind of Spartan victories against the Messenians.