11 sentences with “writers”

Classical literature is a treasure of human culture that offers us a glimpse into the mind and heart of the great thinkers and writers in history.

In a few cases, what writers publish survives them.

Greek writers began to script these performances, eventually creating what we now recognise as plays.

When medieval male writers bothered to write about women, they generally did so with predictable misogyny.

Occasionally, hundreds of years after they "should have known better", Roman writers referred to the Germanic peoples as Celts.

The confusion about whether the Musketeers really existed is due to the fact that, like many writers, Dumas was inspired by historical figures to create the characters in the novel.

Persian became the international language of both scholarship and poetry during this period, with important works written in Persian from northern India to Anatolia by writers of diverse ethnic origins.

However, when the "barbarians" seized the territory, Roman writers were rarely justified in mentioning it, as it was assumed that the territory could and should be reclaimed when it was convenient for Rome.

Girls were to read specific texts drawn from the Bible, the "Church Fathers" (important theologians in early Church history), and classical Greek and Roman writers that emphasised morality, modesty and obedience.

When Rome was forced to cede territory to Persia in 363 AD after a series of military defeats, Roman writers were horrified that the loss of territory represented "abandonment" to the other civilisation and state.

In fact, it was not until the 19th century that writers moved away from Persian as the 'default' language of learning. Persian was thus something of a parallel to Latin in Europe, the big difference being that (unlike Latin) Persian was still a living language spoken by millions of people.