6 sentences with 'authors'
Example sentences and phrases with the word authors and other words derived from it.
• « The most ancient Chinese authors held that each of the five elements of nature - fire, wood, metal, earth and water - had a direct influence on their surroundings and adjusted their lives to the universal laws. »
• « The famous authors of Return of the Warlocks and The Warlock Rebellion, Louis Powels and Jacques Bergier, claim that Atlantis was not a lost continent but an island, Thera, a Cretan colony in the Mediterranean, destroyed by the explosion of the Santorin volcano some 3,000 years before Christ, and all the technological and mystical paraphernalia attributed to it is nothing more than a myth sustained by mystery and its abrupt disappearance. »
• « Enheduanna did not, however, record the earliest known prose work, whose author or authors remain unknown. »
• « What we do know for certain is that almost no written works survive by female authors - the notable exception being Sappho, a poet of the Archaic period whose works suggest that lesbianism may have been relatively common (her home, the Greek island of Lesbos, is the root of the word lesbian). »
• « Likewise, at least some male authors of the Middle Ages were clearly aware that women were more than capable of wit, independence and competence. »
• « For more than a thousand years, Europeans had looked backwards to understand the natural world. They relied on Aristotle and the accounts of other ancient authors to explain how the universe worked, how physics worked and how the human body was regulated. »