Objectivity and imagination, the gifts of the epic bards of classical antiquity, are today the rarest of blessings.
Classical antiquity, with its simple magnificence, can never return.
The natural and pantheistic character of Mr. Cole's philosophy adapts him with phenomenal grace to his position as a mirror of classical antiquity.
We find no allusion to any of the northern tongues, which that votary of classical antiquity and of Ausonian melody and fancy would deem--can we doubt it?
It would, of course, not be difficult to fill these pages with brief notices of other books that fall within the extensive range of classical antiquity.
But perhaps all that was of classical antiquity might be blended in their sentiments with the memory of Rome.
An absurd belief in the fables ofclassical antiquity lent an additional feature to the character of the woodland spirits of whom we treat.
We are now prepared to notice the use of the scapegoat in classical antiquity.
To the theory that the priest of Nemi was slain as a representative of the spirit of the grove, it might have been objected that such a custom has no analogy in classical antiquity.
Human scapegoats, as we shall see presently, were well known in classical antiquity, and even in mediaeval Europe the custom seems not to have been wholly extinct.
These first indelible impressions were in succeeding years, the firm, enduring ground-work for my study of classical antiquity.
By his criticisms, and masterly translation of Homer and other Greek poets, this highly gifted man had not only rendered imperishable service to German literature, but had contributed to infuse a new life into the study of classical antiquity.
In classical antiquity "the influence of patriotism thrilled through every fibre of moral and intellectual life.
In classical antiquity it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites,[58] and the Greeks referred the right of sepulture to the gods as its authors.
On similar grounds vegetarianism has been advocated as a moral duty among Eastern races, as also in classical antiquity.
At the same time the idea that fidelity in marriage ought to be reciprocal was not altogether unknown in classical antiquity.
It must be insisted, however, that it is only through a knowledge of the present that one can acquire an inclination for the study of classical antiquity.
The worship of classical antiquity, as it was to be seen in Italy, maybe interpreted as the only earnest, disinterested, and fecund worship which has yet fallen to the lot of antiquity.
And thus the hasty pamphlet of a half-educated Gothic monk has been forced into prominence, almost into rivalry with the finished productions of the great writers of classical antiquity.
And none have denied him the honour of having restored a true feeling of classical antiquity in Italy, and consequently in Europe.
It will be obvious to any one, very slightly familiar with the Roman law, that this subject, as far as it relates to the republican period, belongs much more to classical antiquity than to jurisprudence.
The origins of this latter attitude towards nature are to be sought in mediæval Christianity rather than in classical antiquity.
He did what no man of the mediæval period is supposed to have done before him, or indeed what scarcely any man of classical antiquity did: he ascended a mountain out of sheer curiosity and simply to enjoy the prospect.
This perversion was not unknown to classical antiquity.
It often does not get beyond that Epicurean toying with sorrow, that luxury of grief, which was not unknown even to classical antiquity.
This strange rule has no parallel in classical antiquity, and cannot be explained from it.
Secondly, the unreserved claim that his own age was fully equal, and in some respects superior, to the age of classical antiquity, in respect of science and the arts.
The women of classical Antiquity appear to us in poetry and imaginative literature as one of two things: the wife or the mistress.
From the nations or tribes of classical antiquity.
From nations and tribes mentioned by the authors of Classical Antiquity.
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