“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveStillsEarthFatherProcessSidesWaterChurchViewsCasesFailingLandCenturyTheoryShapesProveMassOppositesSaintFamiliarReasoningCoveredFifthAvoidedEndorsementsAugustineChurch Fathers Author:Saint Augustine
“The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The Kabyle huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).” HumansStillsLightEyeTodayFormCenturyExampleDegreesSkinsBlueWavePopulationRegionsFifthInvasionBlue EyesPrehistoricConstantineNordicVandals Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.” MenFoundEnergyCenturyIgnoranceHeroTerribleIntellectualDiscoveryAll ThingsFundamentalsTragicDaringCatastropheFifthFuriousTragic Hero Author:Robert Fagles
“If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.” IfsEarthChristianChurchGoneDoubtCenturySaviorFifthDescentChristian Church Author:Milton R. Hunter
“What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.” Has BeensHalfEffectsCenturyDemocraticArguingEmpiresFifthAthenians Author:Moses Finley
“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.” WorldWarUnderstandingEnemyCenturyColdBalanceWeaknessMeetingsAlternativesMutualCold WarFormalDeclarationFifthSummitTwentieth CenturyPursuedColumnsDisarmamentPeace WarSabotageStrength And WeaknessProxyBalance Of PowerMutual UnderstandingDeclaration Of War Book:Peace on Earth Source: Peace on Earth