classical antiquity

1. The age of ancient history dominated by the cultures of Greece and Rome , about 500 b.c. to about a.d. 500.

Example Sentences

How rich in poetry was classical antiquity, whether sung in the Greek or Latin language!

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By definition the renaissance was primarily a literary and scholarly movement derived from the literature of classical antiquity.

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In classical antiquity there were spoken a large number of local dialects, several of which are represented in the literature.

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Afterward, yielding to the inclinations of his nature and his taste for classical antiquity, Merezhkovsky insensibly changed.

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For the rest his dramas might, so far as their philosophy is concerned, have come down to us from classical antiquity.

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