classical age
Greece and Rome
Classical age refers to a period considered the height of a civilization's cultural or artistic achievement.
Most often it means ancient Greece and Rome, roughly the 5th century BCE through the fall of Rome—the era that produced works later generations treated as models.
The term applies to other cultures too: the classical age of Islam, of Chinese poetry, of Hollywood cinema.
The designation always implies a golden standard against which later periods are measured.
- ancient worldPre-medieval human civilizations
- Golden AgeLegendary period of perfection
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- GreeceBalkan peninsula nation
Rome · Roman Empire · Athens · marble · marble columns · philosophy · Plato · Aristotle · columns · temple · democracy · toga · toga party · amphitheater · sculpture · olive wreath · Parthenon · Senate
- Gupta Empiregolden age
classical agemedieval period
Post-Roman, pre-Renaissance era
Middle Ages · Dark Ages · modern era · modern age · digital age
classical ageRomanticism
Emotion-centered artistic movement
Baroque period · Gothic period · modernism · postmodernism · primitivism
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