ancient history

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ancient history

1. The history of times long past.

2. Informal Common knowledge, especially of a recent event that has lost its original impact or importance.

ancient history

1. (Historical Terms) the history of the ancient world from the earliest known civilizations to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 ad

2. informal a recent event or fact sufficiently familiar to have lost its pertinence

an′cient his′tory

1. the study of study of history before the end of the Western Roman Empire A.D. 476.

2. information or an event that is common knowledge or no longer pertinent.

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Noun	1.	ancient history - a history of the ancient world account, chronicle, history, story - a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
	2.	ancient history - knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence common knowledge - anything generally known to everyone

Translations

storia antica

ancient history

n (lit) → Alte Geschichte; (fig) → graue Vorzeit; that’s ancient history (fig) → das ist schon längst Geschichte; he’s well-known in the field of ancient history → er ist ein sehr bekannter Altertumsforscher

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When this happened the ancient world was rolled up like a scroll, and put away until the next day, with all its orators and conspirators, its nymphs and satyrs, gods and demigods; though sometimes they escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams.

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When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity.

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The plays reconstruct the ancient world with much more minute accuracy than do Shakspere's; the student should consider for himself whether they succeed better in reproducing its human reality, making it a living part of the reader's mental and spiritual possessions.

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From the first discovery of the Western Hemisphere by Columbus until the settlement of Virginia which immediately preceded that of Plymouth, the various adventurers from the ancient world had exhibited upon innumerable occasions that ardor of enterprise and that stubbornness of pursuit which set all danger at defiance, and chained the violence of nature at their feet.

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On this point, the structure of the book seems to be more in tune with post-Reformation Protestant thinking than that of the ancient world.

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