6 sentences with 'emperor'
Example sentences and phrases with the word emperor and other words derived from it.
• « Despite such enthusiasm, it was a Roman emperor, Theodosius, who in 393 banned the practice of the Olympic games; this ban put an end to the habit of gymnastics as an active, daily occurrence. »
• « At that time, the Chinese emperor Fu Xi ordered his minister Yi Kang to create a great dance for people to exercise joyfully and thus ward off any kind of illness. »
• « Two generations later, when the Neo-Babylonian empire itself fell to the Persians, the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great allowed all the slaves of the Babylonians to return to their lands, so the Babylonian captivity came to an end and the Jews returned to Judah, where they rebuilt the Temple. »
• « The Platonic Academy flourished throughout the period of Classical Greece, the Hellenic Age that followed, and the Roman Empire, only to be dissolved by the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) emperor Justinian in the 6th century CE. It was, in short, one of the most significant and enduring schools in history. »
• « By the 1st century BC, Stoicism was the Greek philosophy of choice for many Roman aristocrats (a later Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, was even a Stoic philosopher in his own right). »
• « This system was called the Principate, ruled by the "First". Likewise, although "Caesar" had originally been simply the surname of Julius Caesar's line, "Caesar" became synonymous with the emperor himself by the end of the 1st century AD. »