Munich (München), Germany

Antiquity and the Orient

Antike und Orient

Bachelor's
Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: humanities
Qualification: Bachelor
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.lmu.de
Antiquity
Antiquity may refer to any period before the European Middle Ages (which dates from around 476 with the collapse of Rome to 1492 with the discovery of the new world), but still within Western civilization-based history.:
Antiquity
Antiquity, what is it else (God only excepted) but man's authority born some ages before us? Now for the truth of things time makes no alteration; things are still the same they are, let the time be past, present, or to come.
Those things which we reverence for antiquity what were they at their first birth? Were they false?—time cannot make them true. Were they true?—time cannot make them more true. The circumstances therefore of time in respect of truth and error is merely impertinent.
John Hales ("The Ever Memorable"), Of Inquiry and Private Judgment in Religion.
Antiquity
Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways
Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
Thomas Warton, written in a blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon.
Antiquity
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore,
Th' inscription value, but the rust adore.
This the blue varnish, that the green endears;
The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Mr. Addison, line 35.
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