classical antiquity
Ancient Mediterranean civilization
Classical antiquity is the period of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, roughly from the 8th century BCE to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.
The era produced foundational works in philosophy, literature, art, and governance that shaped Western culture.
The ruins date to classical antiquity.
Renaissance artists drew heavily on classical antiquity for inspiration.
- sophisticUsing clever false reasoning
- Roman EmpireAncient state from Augustus onward
- GreeceBalkan peninsula nation
- seven hillsSeven elevated landforms together
- ancientsPeople of antiquity
ancient ruins · Rome · mythology · Renaissance · Athens · philosophy · Parthenon · marble statue · Aristotle · Hippocratic medicine · Roman Republic · Roman baths · Athenian democracy · Stoicism · Plato · Neoplatonism · epic poetry · laurel
- ancient historyancient history, ancient world, ancient empires, Mesopotamia, Babylon
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa
- Western humanitiesRenaissance, Enlightenment, humanism, Reformation, Romanticism
- ancient scienceAristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Galen, Pythagoras
classical antiquitymedieval period
Post-Roman, pre-Renaissance era
modernity · prehistory · postmodernity · Middle Ages · Dark Ages
classical antiquityIslamic Golden Age
Medieval era of Arab scholarship
ancient China · Gothic culture · Victorian culture · barbarism
classical antiquityRomanticism
Emotion-centered artistic movement
modernism · barbarism · postmodernism · primitivism · avant-garde
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