Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

In the wake of the archaeological and philological rediscovery of ancient Assyria, Assyrian nationalism became increasingly popular among the surviving remnants of the Assyrian people, and has come to strongly identify with ancient Assyria.

So profuse was Galen's output that the surviving texts represent nearly half of all the extant literature from ancient Greece.

This group, he claimed, were the New Forest coven, and he believed them to be one of the few surviving covens of the ancient, pre-Christian Witch-Cult religion.

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

As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus ' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks.

Some of these, such as the city of Seron, receive no mention in the surviving texts of any other ancient authority.

After investigating the surviving depictions of the ancient event it is believed that unlike the modern day event, athletes were only allowed a short running start.

On noting the large number of surviving ancient manuscripts, Bruce Metzger sums up the view on the issue by saying " The more often you have copies that agree with each other, especially if they emerge from different geographical areas, the more you can cross-check them to figure out what the original document was like.

Form from a Pictish stone dated to the Middle Ages, but reflecting the custom surviving from the ancient Picts.

There are also at least two surviving pyramid-like structures still available to study, one at Hellenikon and the other at Ligourio / Ligurio, a village near the ancient theatre Epidaurus.

The Almagest is the only surviving comprehensive ancient treatise on astronomy.

Plautus wrote around 52 plays, of which 20 have survived, making him the most prolific ancient dramatist in terms of surviving work.

There are few representations of this type of choke in surviving art objects, but there are a number of references to it in the ancient literature.

Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works ( other than pottery ) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely.

The most ancient waka were recorded in the historical record the Kojiki and the 20 volumes of the Man ' yōshū, the oldest surviving waka anthology.

The Oresteia is the only surviving trilogy of these ancient Greek plays, originally performed at the festival in Athens in 458 BC.

It was believed they are the only surviving branch of the ancient evolutionary grade Anapsida, which includes groups such as procolophonids, millerettids, protorothyrids, and pareiasaurs.

Other fragments and ' notices ' are sprinkled through the surviving works of ancient authors, which they used to illustrate various points they were making, as for example:

Some modern paleontologists still believe that Testudines are the only surviving branch of this ancient evolutionary grade, which includes groups such as procolophonids, millerettids, and pareiasaurs, although that view is not generally accepted.

The city forms the setting of The Persians ( 472 BCE ), an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus that is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre.

One still stands, as the tallest surviving ancient obelisk on Earth ; the other has broken in two and toppled.

With his knowledge of Arabic and Greek as well as Latin, he began to translate many of the medical texts from ancient Greece and Rome from the surviving Arabic translations into Latin.

The ancient, high-tech city has been ravaged by decades of war, and one of the surviving fighters, Gasher, kidnaps Jake by taking advantage of the near-accident the team faced while crossing a decaying bridge that looks like the George Washington Bridge of NYC.

The following verses demonstrate some key characteristics of the Alcaic style ( square brackets indicate uncertainties in the ancient text ):

Jews, Protestants, and Catholics all use the Masoretic text as the textual basis for their translations of the protocanonical books ( those which are received by both Jews and all Christians ), with various emendations derived from a multiplicity of other ancient witnesses ( such as the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

Basic rule: " The text is only to be sought from ancient evidence, and especially from Greek manuscripts, but without neglecting the testimonies of versions and fathers.

The priest tells K. that the parable is an ancient text of the court, and many generations of court officials have given interpretations.

In order to carry out the fundamentalist program in practice, one would need a perfect understanding of the ancient language of the original text, if indeed the true text can be discerned from among variants.

* Genesis in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and English – The critical text of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew with ancient versions ( Masoretic, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, Peshitta, Septuagint, Vetus Latina, Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion ) and English translation for each version in parallel.

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

Braid ’ s interest in these practices stems from his studies of the Dabistān-i Mazāhib, the “ School of Religions ”, an ancient Persian text describing a wide variety of Oriental religious rituals, beliefs, and practices.

This text was in the same script used in the ancient Buddhist centres of learning in Nalanda and Vikramashila.

A Latin text was found in Milan in the 19th century by Antonio Ceriani who called it the Assumption of Moses, even though it does not refer to an assumption of Moses or contain portions of the Assumption which are cited by ancient authors, and it is apparently actually the Testimony.

Segment of Michinaga's personal diary in his own handwriting — text shown is from volume covering the years from 998 to 1021, designated as National Treasures of Japan | National Treasure of Japan in the List of National Treasures of Japan ( ancient documents ) | category ancient documents.

The history of morphological analysis dates back to the ancient Indian linguist, who formulated the 3, 959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in the text by using a constituency grammar.

This was the beginning of modern New Testament textual criticism, which over subsequent centuries would increasingly incorporate more and more manuscripts, in more languages ( i. e., versions of the New Testament ), as well as citations of the New Testament by ancient authors and the New Testament text in lectionaries in order to reconstruct the earliest recoverable form of the New Testament text and the history of changes to it.

In 1760 Macpherson published the English-language text Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Gaelic or Erse language, and later that year obtained further manuscripts.

However, no actual ancient text using this term is known.

Thirty are unnamed in both the scene headings and the text and there are about nine characters who are named in the ancient text but not in any modern one.

This ancient text remains largely neutral to the concept of polyandry, accepting this as her way of life.