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Перевод: antiquity

[существительное]
древний мир; античность ; классическая древность; древность ; старина ; давность

Тезаурус:

1. A genuine but mundane antiquity can have its value increased enormously by the addition of a unique feature, or of a historical association such as a royal cipher.
2. Although there were no mechanical clocks in antiquity, mechanical models appear to have been constructed to reproduce the relative motions of the heavenly bodies.
3. In this respect, too, the ground had been prepared by what Michel Foucault has described as a "pathologization of sex" in late antiquity: anxiety about sex and the sexual regime began to dominate the thought of medical writers and the advice they offered to clients intent on achieving balanced lives.
4. The story may be true since instances of such zeal are well attested for Christian antiquity.
5. the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics, who believed that, when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world, everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail.
6. For the first time in classical antiquity the nuclear family had assumed a central role in the politics of state.
7. By the reign of Henry III their offices were of considerable antiquity.
8. In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church, but a few minutes later, having walked only a short distance, may have plunged back in time to Antiquity.
9. In antiquity portraits served as surrogates for their subjects.
10. Gastropods of this antiquity preserved in limestone can be difficult to clean.
11. A useful paper, 'The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments", was published in Antiquity Vol.LV (1981) pp.106-;14, and points to the way some present, and future, publications will be made.
12. The Christian view of time directed to the future, as presented by St Augustine, differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring.
13. For example, Africa supplied Rome with two-thirds of its corn, transported in the great grain ships which must have been among the most impressive sights of antiquity.