11 sentences with 'surviving'
Example sentences and phrases with the word surviving and other words derived from it.
• « The world's earliest surviving literary work, the Mesopotamian story known as The Epic of Gilgamesh, was obsessed with the theme of human mortality. »
• « Remembered as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the earliest surviving literary work, it is the best known of the surviving stories of Mesopotamia. »
• « The most important surviving law code is that of the Babylonian king Hammurabi, dating from around 1780 BCE. »
• « Appropriately, many of the surviving documents from ancient Egypt are fiscal records, carefully recorded in hieroglyphs by scribes. »
• « The surviving evidence seems to indicate that some combination of events, some caused by humans and some by the environment, probably combined to signify the end of the Bronze Age. »
• « The earliest surviving Greek literature dates from around 800 - 750 BC thanks to the use of this new alphabet (which, in turn, served as the basis for the Roman alphabet and thence for the alphabets used in all European Latin languages, including English). »
• « In the surviving plays of the ancient Greeks, there were very few happy endings, but many opportunities to relate to or mock the fate of the protagonists. »
• « The most important surviving piece of Greek architecture, the Parthenon in Athens dedicated to the patron goddess of the polis, Athena, was built to embody the golden ratio in terms of its height and width. »
• « In the same way, the Romans copied the Greek architectural style and, along with surviving Greek buildings such as the Parthenon, we can still appreciate the Greek architectural aesthetic. »
• « However, one of the reasons we know that women enjoyed a greater degree of autonomy than in many other societies is the number of surviving texts that described and, in many cases, celebrated the role of women. »