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the ancients1The people of ancient times, especially the Greeks and Romans of classical antiquity.In fact, some artists and designers in eighteenth-century Rome not only imitated the ancients but actually incorporated antique elements into their own works....- In the pre-millennial run-up, this popular fascination with the ancients was mixed into a New Age stew of half-understood ideas about the origins of religious belief.
- The flower was also a popular aphrodisiac among the ancients (who were then, of course, all ages, both young and old!).
1.1The classical Greek and Roman authors: a thorough knowledge of the ancients is a prerequisite of criticism...- But none of this means that Adam and Eve are subjects or citizens existing within what either the ancients or Milton would have thought of as a political society.
- As Jean Seznec established, medieval writers considered themselves the cultural heirs of the ancients.
- The ancients - Hesiod, Homer, Virgil - struggled with it on their own cosmic terms.
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