6 sentences with 'honour'

Example sentences and phrases with the word honour and other words derived from it.

« The Bacchic festivals, the bacchanals in honour of Bacchus or Dionysus (god of fertility, ecstasy and vegetation venerated in Rome and Greece), were intended to rescue the repressed areas of the human being, but carried within them the seeds of their destruction. »
« Homosexual love in this case was linked directly to the Greek virtues of honour and skill in battle, as it was believed that the Sacred Band fought harder to honour and defend their lovers. »
« Alexander the Great also made a show of treating Darius' family with respect and honour, demonstrating that he wanted to win over the Persians rather than humiliate them. »
« The greatest honour a Roman could win was a triumph, a military parade displaying the spoils of war to the cheers of the people of Rome; many people held important positions in Rome, but only the greatest generals were rewarded with a triumph. »
« Some Romans admired their bravery and codes of honour - the same Tacitus who provides much of the information about the early emperors contrasted the supposed weakness and dissolution of his Roman contemporaries with the crude virtue of the Germans. »
« The so-called "feudal" system of law was based on codes of honour and reciprocity. »

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