Greek-style architecture increasingly replaced humbler Roman buildings, and the Romans made giant leaps in their knowledge of mathematics and engineering.
Both productions explore the relationship between tyranny and creativity: the artistic kind, but also the humbler urge to create private love and lives in crushing times.
These days a humbler field, it now measures its progress by how well algorithms perform in something called Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP).
Pyncheon Street formerly bore the humbler appellation of Maule's Lane, from the name of the original occupant of the soil, before whose cottage-door it was a cow-path.
His scientific heredity might have bequeathed him a wider world but he seemed to have deliberately chosen the standpoint of an humbler class, a choice typified by his selection of a wife.
But this time, our focus will be a little quieter, a little humbler, as we delve into the life, interests, and habits of an artist we all know, or at least think we know.
Here was Louisa on the night of the same day, watching the fire as in days of yore, though with a gentler and a humbler face. How much of the future might arise before her vision?