Sentence examples for ancient think from inspiring English sources

The decor is endearingly ancient (think naff frescoes, fake flowers and claret-coloured paper napkins).

The whole idea of a representative democracy (a Greek word) comes from Ancient (think then-solvent) Greece.

Can people be trusted to harness it for good?The ancients thought not.

When reading Aristotle's Physics, students did not examine nature but rather what the ancients thought about natural things.

Unfortunately, if this does go back to Speusippus, it may have been contaminated by neoplatonic elements, for Proclus has Speusippus saying that the ancients thought "the one better than being and that from which the being derives", and this should not be Speusippus, given his rejection of the claim that the One is good (see above).

There is, however, no reason to deny that this underlying nature could be homogenous with its manifest nature: that is, it would seem to be possible that there is a world in which the water-like stuff is an element, as the ancients thought, and is water-like all the way down.

The ancients thought that treatments such as phlebotomy, exercise, or bloodletting could "cure" an individual of love.

What would the ancient philosophers think of finding wisdom in a search engine?

The ancient Persians thought rhino horn vessels could detect poisons.

The ancient Greeks thought this constellation represented a wreath of leaves.

You needed your heart in the next world, the ancient Egyptians thought.