The Ancients are any writers from the dawn of civilization to the Dark Ages, that's mythology to epics.

THE HISTORIES by Herodotus (440 BC)
"THE TRANSFORMATION OF LYCAON" in THE METAMORPHOSIS by Ovid (8 AD)
"NICEROS'S STORY" in THE SATYRICON by Petronius Arbiter (60 AD)
THE NATURAL HISTORIES by Pliny the Elder (77 AD)
 

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