In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

These are more properly called wagons or carts and were still double-axled and pulled by oxen or tamed asses before the introduction of horses c. 2000 BC.

Walter Burkert notes that though the story of Hippodamia's abduction figures in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and on the chest of Cypselus ( c. 570 BCE ) that was conserved at Olympia, and though preparations for the chariot-race figured in the east pediment of the great temple of Zeus at Olympia, the myth of the chariot race only became important at Olympia with the introduction of chariot racing in the twenty-fifth Olympiad ( 680 BCE ).

These books run from the rule of the tyrant Clearchus ( c. 364 – 353 BC ) to the later years of Julius Caesar ( c. 40 BC ) and contain many colorful accounts including the Byzantine introduction of the barbarian Gauls into Asia where they first allied themselves with the Heracleans and later turned violently against them.

Manuel ( or Emmanuel ) Chrysoloras (; c. 1355 – April 15, 1415 ) was a pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature to Western Europe during the late middle ages.

While serving as the armarius at Vivarium c. 540-548, Cassiodorus wrote a commentary on the Psalms entitled Expositio Psalmorum as an introduction to the Psalms for individuals seeking to enter the monastic community.

Most world universities use a 5 chapter format: a ) an introduction, which introduces the research topic, the methodology, as well as its scope and significance ; b ) a literature review, reviewing relevant literature and showing how this has informed the research issue ; c ) a methodology chapter, explaining how the research has been designed and why the research methods / population / data collection and analysis being used have been chosen ; d ) a findings chapter, outlining the findings of the research itself ; e ) an analysis and discussion chapter, analysing the findings and discussing them in the context of the literature review ( this chapter is often divided into two — analysis and discussion ); f ) a conclusion.

The duration of the Neolithic varies from place to place, its end marked by the introduction of bronze implements: in southeast Europe it is approximately 4000 years ( i. e., 7000 BC – 3000 BC ) while in Northwest Europe it is just under 3000 years ( c. 4500 BC – 1700 BC ).

While conceding that most ringforts were built in the Early Christian period, he suggests a link between the arrival of the supposedly British Eoganachta dynasty in Munster c. 400 AD, and the introduction of ringforts.

The symbolic method uses a compact but rather confusing and mysterious notation for invariants, depending on the introduction of new symbols a, b, c, ... ( from which the symbolic method gets its name ) with apparently contradictory properties.

Yu the Great (, c. 2200-2100 BC ), was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by founding the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character.

The coin was minted from c. 241 to 235 BC until shortly before the introduction of the denarius ( 211 BC ).

With the introduction of the human alien Jonas Quinn in season 6, the writers developed a relationship between the two aliens of the team " without making it seem exclusionary ", and Teal ' c is no longer the " Other " of the show.

He is often credited with the establishment of blue underglaze transfer printing in Staffordshire in 1781 – 84, and with the definition and introduction in c. 1789 – 91 of the improved formula for bone china ( a form of soft-paste porcelain ) which thereafter remained the standard for all English wares of this kind.

* Parce que c ' est une femme, introduction de Zebeïda Chergui, théâtre, un entretien avec Kateb Yacine avec El Hanar Benali, 1972, La Kahina ou Dilhya ; Saout Ennissa, 1972 ; La Voix des femmes et Louise Michel et la Nouvelle Calédonie, Paris, Editions des Femmes, 2004, 174 pages.

( c ) A U. S .- Palestinian-Israeli committee would be established to assist and enhance cooperation in preventing the smuggling or other unauthorized introduction of weapons or explosive materials into areas under Palestinian jurisdiction.

Although the first generation S-series Blazer and Jimmy were initially sold as 2-doors upon its original introduction, an episode of Motor Trend TV ( c. 1991 ) stated that the thumbs up was for the introduction of the new bodystyle, and the thumbs down was that the 4-door bodystyle was based on the first generation model, which was in the process of a makeover.

Burns Journal ', a manuscript notebook containing workings for several projected works, composed c. 1695-1700 with an introduction by Peter Laslett.

Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann repudiated the quest for historical Jesus, and although the introduction of The Five Gospels asserts this it suppressed any real interest in the topic from c 1920 to c 1970, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says there was a brief New Quest movement in the 50s conducted by Bultmann's students, and the search continued without break outside of the Bultmann school.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Too often it is thought of at the last moment of new product introduction.

The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.

And as an introduction to American politics it is highly educational.

It is commendable that a regularly scheduled hour is set aside for an introduction to the contemporary musical scene.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

For example, in some groups, the group operation is commutative, and this can be asserted with the introduction of an additional axiom, but without this axiom we can do quite well developing ( the more general ) group theory, and we can even take its negation as an axiom for the study of non-commutative groups.

( A collection of 64 essays with many pieces from the Annales — the long introduction is excellent, and contains many good references ).

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

The Aldine Press is famous in the history of typography, among other things, for the introduction of italics.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

When one turns from the dombocs introduction to the laws themselves, it is difficult to uncover any logical arrangement.

The prose introduction to Lokasenna and Snorri's list of kennings state that Ægir is also known as Gymir, who is Gerðr's father, but this is evidently an erroneous interpretation of kennings in which different giant-names are used interchangeably.

Proceduralists often suggest that it is the process by which a work of art is created or viewed that makes it art, not any inherent feature of an object, or how well received it is by the institutions of the art world after its introduction to society at large.

Below is a table with Ajax's domestic results since the introduction of the Eredivisie in 1956.

In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:

* 1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.

1 makes it clear that she is married, and the introduction suggests her husband refused to be included in the published diaries.

* Natural Law explained, evaluated and applied A clear introduction to Natural Law

An 1855 paper on the " introduction " of species, written by Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that patterns in the geographical distribution of living and fossil species could be explained if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species.

The introduction is explained and justified by the unique characteristics of competence ( often used only knowledge ).

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

The Portuguese lagoa under the spelling lagona ( perhaps lagõna ), is documented in the 14th century, and alternated with the other for a long time ; the prosthesis is then explained by the introduction of the article, chiefly in locution ( na lagoa, vindo da lagoa ) ( in the lake, coming from the lake ), and for morphologic regularization with the derivatives of the verb alagar ( to inundate ) ( alagadiço, alagado, alagador, alagamento, etc.

In the introduction, he explained his purpose: " During the past summer I explored the Sequoia belt of the Sierra Nevada, tracing its boundaries and learning what I could of the post-glacial history of the species, and of its future prospects.

Since Child did not live to complete the planned introduction to his work which was to have explained his methodology, it has sometimes been alleged his selection was arbitrary and based purely on personal taste.

In a 1999 interview with Jim Lehrer, Stockdale explained that the statements were intended as an introduction of himself and his personal history to the television audience:

As explained in the introduction, y can be given as a function of x implicitly rather than explicitly.

Starting with the tangent bundle ( the bundle of tangent spaces ) the whole apparatus explained at component-free treatment of tensors carries over in a routine way — again independently of co-ordinates, as mentioned in the introduction.

Some archaeologists suggest that there in the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, the large cultural differences are explained by foreign invasion, that is, the introduction of new ethnicity.

In the first volume, Asian countries were explained, in the second volume, African countries were explained, in the third volume, European countries were explained, in the forth volume, South American countries were explained, in the fifth volume, North American countries and Australia were explained and in the last sixth volume was appendix to explain the introduction of geography.

Molina viewed the proposition as a license to discriminate and a direct attack on human rights, as explained in her 1996 introduction to the character:

The " unauthorised " nature of the 1970 reprint is explained by the fact that, as Carter indicated in his introduction, he and the publishing company could not even ascertain whether the author was alive or dead, " since our efforts to trace this lady have so far been unsuccessful.

As Sayers explained in the introduction to the book, " Each writer must construct his instalment with a definite solution in view — that is, he must not introduce new complications merely ' to make it more difficult ' ... ach writer was bound to deal faithfully with all the difficulties left for his consideration by his predecessors.

In the book's introduction, Lowell explained that his idiosyncratic translations should be thought of as " imitations " rather than strict translations since he took many liberties with the originals, trying to " do what authors might have done if they were writing their poems now and in America.

In January 1960 the council ’ s chairman, the unabashed patriot Sir Norman Martin, announced the introduction of a new annual award for the ‘ Australian of the Year .’ He explained that Australia Day was a fitting occasion on which to give proper recognition to a leading citizen, whose contribution to the nation ’ s culture, economy, sciences or arts was particularly outstanding.

In an acerbic introduction, Barnes explained that the missing words and passages had been replaced with asterisks so that readers could see the " havoc " wreaked by censorship.

Being more expensive and labour-intensive to produce than thatch, their introduction has been explained by their greatly enhanced fire resistance which gave desired protection to the costly temples.

The text was followed by a critical apparatus, the first part of which consisted of an introduction to the criticism of the New Testament, in the thirty-fourth section of which he laid down and explained his celebrated canon, Proclivi scriptioni praestat ardua ( The difficult reading is to be preferred to that which is easy ), the soundness of which, as a general principle, has been recognized by succeeding critics.