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  • By “ancient civilization” we mean, as usual, the large conglom - eration of component civilizations of so-called antiq - uity that severally came into being in and around the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • In antiq - uity altogether, only later antiquity had some adum - brations (Panofsky, “Die Perspective” ...).

    INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • The three volumes of the present writer follow the development of the idea of imitation from antiq - uity until 1700.

    MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

  • Clearly the terms have something in common: the reference to excellence, to authority, and to the relation to antiq - uity.

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • The thoughts stimulated by this aware - ness, however, are not recorded before classical antiq - uity.

    CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968

  • The elegiac note is prominent in André Chénier and the painters and sculptors of the return to antiq - uity.

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Protagoras 'contemporary, Sophocles, wrote the most enthusiastic proclamation of man's ability to con - trol and transform the world that survives from antiq - uity (Antigone 332-75), yet he closed his encomium with a cautionary reference to the fact that such power can be a mixed blessing.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas THOMAS COLE 1968

  • In different countries different ages are labeled “classi - cal”: the meaning shifts then from excellence, pre - scriptive greatness with an implied relation to antiq - uity, or even a claim of rivalling or surpassing antiquity, to that of a neutral, objective designation of a past style of art.

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Cf. Chapot, _Les destinées de l'hellénisme au delà l'Euphrate_ (_Mém.soc. antiq. de France_), 1902, pp. 207 ff.

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • ; Chapot, _Mém.soc. antiq. de France_, 1902, pp. 239 ff.

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

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