9 sentences with “influential”

With this in mind, the Greeks were undoubtedly historically important and influential.

The most influential ancient sources of scientific knowledge were Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer and mathematician, and Aristotle.

Many Jesuits became influential advisors to kings throughout Europe, ensuring that Catholic monarchs actively pursued and eradicated heresy (including, of course, Protestantism).

Athens was the richest and most influential of all the Greek polis during this period, although its power declined once it became embroiled in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta from 431 BCE.

Of all his ideas, this concept of a philosopher-king was one of the most influential; various kings, emperors and generals influenced by Greek philosophy would attempt to model their rule on Plato's concepts until the modern era.

While the Romans were deeply suspicious of individuals who seemed to be trying to seize power for themselves, several influential families worked behind the scenes to ensure that they could control the voting blocs in the Centurial Assembly and the Senate.

Renaissance art and scholarship was hugely influential. Although the process took many decades, both humanist scholarship and education on the one hand, and classically inspired art and architecture on the other, spread beyond Italy throughout the 15th century.

Aristotle's work was so influential that philosophers continued to believe in the essential validity of his findings well into the Renaissance period (thousands of years later), even though many of his scientific conclusions turned out to be factually inaccurate.

Civic virtue, closely related to the modern concept of patriotism, was the influential power and idea because it would continue throughout the Greek Classical Age, be passed down through the conquests of Alexander the Great, and eventually become one of the most important, if not the only, ethical norms of the Roman Republic and Empire. Ultimately, it would go on to influence thinkers and politicians to the present day.