"predecessor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Roman epigrams owe much to their Greek predecessors and contemporaries.
- Muslims made several important improvements to the theory and construction of sundials, which they inherited from their Indian and Greek predecessors.
- One excellent example is his Bacchides and its supposed Greek predecessor, Menander's Dis Exapaton.
- Ptolemy inherited from his Greek predecessors a geometrical toolbox and a partial set of models for predicting where the planets would appear in the sky.
- For religious reasons, they did not dissect either human beings or animals, thus their knowledge was based in its entirety on the texts of their Greek predecessors.
- They have shown important advances over those of their Greek predecessors.
- And yet it remains unclear whether his scientific method was truly modern or more like Ptolemy and his Greek predecessors.
- Richter defines the cathedra as a later version of the Greek klismos, which she says was never as popular as its Greek predecessor.
- Shown side by side, two pieces based on the kylix, a classical Greek predecessor of the chalice, provide a striking contrast in spirit.
- It can be argued, and has been, that the Roman authors, far from being mindless copycats, improved on the genres already established by their Greek predecessors.
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