A panel on the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata (in which I participated) studied the pragmatic morality of this living text.
Banville is the heir to Proust, via Nabokov, and not because there is a lot of sex in ancient Light.
The link between art and plunder is another lesson from ancient Rome that is with us still.
The notion of handcrafting a flawless spouse was nothing new—the Pygmalion myth dates back to ancient Greece.
The EU has tamed these ancient tribalisms in fits and starts.
Would that in this respect the ancient darkness might yield to the new light.
Had ancient times conspired to disallow What then was new, what had been ancient now?
In all the Norse languages, ancient and modern, the -d is preserved.
In the ancient German law there was absolute freedom of divorce by agreement.
The complaint that “physicians were in vain” is of ancient date.
mid-14c., auncyen, from Old French ancien "old, long-standing, ancient," from Vulgar Latin *anteanus, literally "from before," adjectivization of Latin ante "before, in front of, against" (from PIE *anti "against," locative singular of *ant- "front, forehead;" see ante). The parasitic -t dates from 15c. by influence of words in -ent.
Specifically, in history, "belonging to the period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire" (and contrasted with medieval and modern). In English law, "from before the Norman Conquest." Ancient of Days is from Dan. vii:9. Related: Anciently.
"standard-bearer," 1550s, a corruption of ensign. Archaic, but preserved in Shakespeare's character Aunchient Pistoll in "Henry V."