10 sentences with 'translated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word translated and other words derived from it.
• « The Iliad and the Odyssey celebrated the arete - a Greek virtue that can be translated into English as "excellence" and "success", but which should be understood as a moral characteristic as much as a physical or mental one. »
• « The major histories of Mesopotamia, Persia and Egypt were written during the Hellenistic period and translated into Greek. »
• « Funded directly by Ptolemy's government, the Library of Alexandria collected and translated every scrap of scholarship available from the Hellenistic world and welcomed scholars who based their own work on its archives. »
• « St. Cyril then translated the Greek liturgy into Slavic and used it to teach and convert the inhabitants of Moravia and Bulgaria. »
• « What later came to be regarded as the founding body of thought of Western civilisation - ancient Greek philosophy and literature - was thus widely analysed, translated and copied outside Greece itself in the Arab kingdoms of the Middle Ages. »
• « One aspect of Islam that distinguishes it from Judaism and Christianity is that the Qur'an has a single point of origin, the recitations of Muhammad himself, and Muslims believe that it cannot be translated from Arabic and remains the "true" holy book. »
• « New discoveries were made in astronomy, metallurgy and medicine, and scholarly works from various languages were translated and preserved in Arabic. The most significant tradition of scholarship around the works of Aristotle, in particular, took place in the Abbasid caliphate. »
• « Enterprising scholars - many of them Jewish philosophers living in North Africa and Spain - translated Aristotle's work on logic from Arabic into Latin. Later, Greeks from Byzantium came to Europe with the Greek originals and also translated them into Latin. »
• « The flourishing of Renaissance art and learning was a consequence of this very specific use of wealth: mercantile and banking riches were translated into social and political status through art, architecture and scholarship. »