the classics
Timeless great works
The classics refers to the literature, art, and thought of ancient Greece and Rome, long considered foundational to Western education.
Someone who studied the classics read Homer, Virgil, Plato, and their contemporaries in the original languages.
More broadly, the classics of any field are its most enduring, influential works: the classics of jazz, the classics of science fiction.
- columnVertical structural element
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- amphitheaterOpen-air tiered venue
- bustFailure or sculpture
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
Roman Empire · Greek tragedy · epic · comedy · rhetoric · pedagogy · ivory tower · Renaissance · humanism · Enlightenment · trivium · enduring · carpe diem · timeless · ethics · dialectics · marble · Western canon
the classicscontemporary fiction
Recently written realistic novels
airport novels · hot off the press · what's new · contemporary writing
the classicsdime novels
Cheap sensational 19th-century fiction
pulp fiction · trash · schlock · potboilers · guilty pleasures
classical, classic, classicist, classicism, classically, neoclassical, neoclassicism, classicists, neoclassic