Afrodyte
Explorer
OK; I've just gotten the sense that people have this idea that D&D is all fantasy medieval Europe all the time, which has never been the case. In addition to having monsters from nearly every portion of the Earth, Greyhawk contained countries emulations of nearly every culture on Earth too, and Forgotten Realms even more so. And that's just the published worlds. Yet you constantly hear about how "D&D is Fantasy Medieval Europe". It really never has been.
My own preferred stylings is more Ancient world & pulp sword & sorcery than the ersatz 16th Century Renaissance Faire look of most of the trade dress these days.
And I definitely understand where you're coming from, as the "medieval Europe" thing is more a historical and stylistic feature than a mechanical one.
When you say ancient world, what kind of thing do you mean? Are we talking Xena, or the Iliad, or something else?