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Ancient history

noun

A history of the ancient world.

Knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence.

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"Ancient history" Quotes from Famous Books

... natural history. Robert read all these books with an avidity and industry scarcely to be equalled. My father had been a subscriber to Stackhouse's History of the Bible ...; from this Robert collected a competent knowledge of ancient history; for no book was so voluminous as to slacken his industry, or so antiquated as to dampen his researches. A brother of my mother, who had lived with us some time, and had learned some arithmetic by our winter evening's candle, went into a book-seller's shop ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... him access to the closed shelves where the history books were kept. But the books themselves were disappointing. Most of them were Earth's ancient history, from earliest beginnings to the dawn of atomic power. Barrent skimmed through them. As he read, some memories of prior reading returned to him. He was able to jump quickly from Periclean Greece to Imperial Rome, to Charlemagne and the Dark Ages, from the ...

— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... among the feudal governments of Europe is well known to every man that has any acquaintance with ancient history; and the antiquaries of all foreign countries, where the question was never embarrassed by party disputes, have allowed, that the Commons came very late to be admitted to a share in the legislative power. In Normandy particularly, whose ...

— The History of England, Volume I • David Hume

... now ancient history. Lee could not repeat that chapter if he would. Nay, I believe he wouldn't if ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... The wife ruled the husband, and his and her kindred, with uncontrolled and unsparing rigour, sanctioned and even commanded by the laws. Yet the very existence of any such people as the Amazons of ancient history has not only been questioned, but denied. Learning has ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

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