(uncountable) Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature.

Of or relating to Ancient Greece.

The Greek-speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.

plural of ancient

The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers.

In the manner of very long ago. As the ancients did. / Done long ago.

The state or quality of being ancient.

The Hellenic language of Ancient Macedonians, probaby an ancient Greek dialect, spoken in Macedon from 808 BCE till 168 BCE

The civilization associated with Rome from the 9th century BCE to the 5th century C.E. and the Roman Empire centered on it.

(archaic) Dignified, old-fashioned style