classical times
Greece and Rome
Classical times refers to the era of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, roughly from the 8th century BCE through the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century CE.
The period is associated with foundational achievements in philosophy, art, architecture, and government that shaped Western culture: In classical times, democracy emerged in Athens.
Often used interchangeably with classical antiquity or the classical period.
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- artHuman creative expression
- democracyRule by the people
- educationSystematic development of mind
- Latin rootsRoman word origins
architecture · marble columns · republic · sculpture · religion · astronomy · epic poetry · Trojan War · aqueducts · mythology · public baths · olive oil · rhetoric · citizenship · lawmaking · mathematics · drama · senate
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The contemporary era
contemporary times · modern age · modernity · postmodernity · prehistory
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Being of present times
modernism · postmodernism · contemporary culture · Romanticism · medieval period
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