I've never related the word 'ancient' specifically to Ancient Greece and Rome, but I agree that it doesn't feel right to refer to a skull as ancient when it's suspected that it was Mozart's skull.
I guess my definition of ancient would be anything of or relating to history prior to 1300 or 1000 A.D. It's sort of an arbitrary time period, I suppose, but when I think about things that happened in say, the 1400's, I don't feel like those things are really ancient. The Renaissance doesn't feel ancient to me, so for something to be ancient to me it has to have happened sometime prior to that.
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Date: 2006-01-09 06:24 pm (UTC)I guess my definition of ancient would be anything of or relating to history prior to 1300 or 1000 A.D. It's sort of an arbitrary time period, I suppose, but when I think about things that happened in say, the 1400's, I don't feel like those things are really ancient. The Renaissance doesn't feel ancient to me, so for something to be ancient to me it has to have happened sometime prior to that.