n.people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)

Ancients against Moderns
Your ancients revisited: A history of child development.
Into the Minds of Ancients: Advances in Maya Glyph Studies
Moderns and ancients: the "new cardiology"in Britain 1880-1930.
Ancients, moderns and Americans: the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited
Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle by Joan DeJean
Ancients and moderns : a study of the rise of the scientific movement in seventeenth-century England
The Aesthetics of Mimesis. Ancients Texts and Modern Problems by S. Halliwell
Images of Savages : Ancients Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture / G. Jahoda.
Mid Holocene Paleoclimatic Paleoenvironmental Changes in Zhejiang Province and Hemudu Ancients