classicist
Ancient Greece expert
A classicist is a scholar of ancient Greek and Roman language, literature, and culture.
The term also describes someone who favors classical styles in art, music, or architecture—adhering to traditional forms and principles rather than romantic or experimental approaches: As a classicist, she preferred Mozart to Wagner.
Study of historical texts
- epigraphyStudy of ancient inscriptions
- numismaticsStudy of currency
- paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
lexicography · etymology · professor · lecturer · dissertation · thesis · seminar · colloquium
Balkan peninsula nation
- RomeItaly's capital city
- AthensGreece's capital city
- SpartaAncient Greek warrior state
- HomerAncient Greek epic composer
Virgil · Ovid · Plato · Aristotle · Socrates · Cicero · Acropolis · Colosseum
One demanding strict adherence
- conservativeCautious about altering customs
- orthodoxConforming to established belief
- canonicalAccepted as standard
- formalistOne emphasizing prescribed conventions
preservationist · conventional · time-honored · old-school · revivalist · traditionalism · standards · Hellenism
Impressively grand in scope
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- comedyWork meant to amuse
- lyricSong's text
- poetryMetrical literary composition
drama · rhetoric · Aeschylus · Sophocles · Euripides · Aristophanes · Sappho · Horace
Rule by the people
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
- gladiatorAncient Roman arena combatant
- chariotAncient horse-drawn fighter's vehicle
oracle · pantheon · mosaic · amphitheater · triumphal · polis · republic · citizen
Virtue-centered ancient philosophy
- EpicureanismPhilosophy valuing serene pleasure
- PlatonismPhilosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
- AristotelianismPhilosophy derived from Stagira's sage
- NeoplatonismPlotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
ethics · metaphysics · epistemology · logic · dialectic · Cynicism · sophists · Academy
philology
Study of historical texts
- epigraphyStudy of ancient inscriptions
- numismaticsStudy of currency
- paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
hermeneutics · lexicography · etymology · professor · lecturer · dissertation · thesis · seminar · colloquium · symposium
Greece
Balkan peninsula nation
Homer · Virgil · Ovid · Plato · Aristotle · Socrates · Cicero · Acropolis · Colosseum · Parthenon
purist
One demanding strict adherence
- conservativeCautious about altering customs
- orthodoxConforming to established belief
- canonicalAccepted as standard
formalist · preservationist · conventional · time-honored · old-school · revivalist · traditionalism · standards · Hellenism · idealist
epic
Impressively grand in scope
poetry · drama · rhetoric · Aeschylus · Sophocles · Euripides · Aristophanes · Sappho · Horace · Iliad
democracy
Rule by the people
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
- gladiatorAncient Roman arena combatant
chariot · oracle · pantheon · mosaic · amphitheater · triumphal · polis · republic · citizen · symposium
Stoicism
Virtue-centered ancient philosophy
- EpicureanismPhilosophy valuing serene pleasure
- PlatonismPhilosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
- AristotelianismPhilosophy derived from Stagira's sage
Neoplatonism · ethics · metaphysics · epistemology · logic · dialectic · Cynicism · sophists · Academy · Lyceum
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- Classical EducatorsSocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca
- humanities careershistorian, philosopher, linguist, archaeologist, anthropologist
- literary scholarsscholar, critic, literary critics, professor, philologists
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
classicistromanticist
Devotee of emotion-driven art
romantic · modernist · avant-gardist · expressionist · experimentalist
classicistradical
Root-indicating symbol
liberal · left-winger · progressive · revolutionary · modernizer
classicism, neoclassicism, classicists, neoclassicist, neoclassicists