Classics
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Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, art, mythology and society as secondary subjects.
In Western civilization, the study of the Greek and Roman classics was traditionally considered to be the foundation of the humanities and has traditionally been the cornerstone of a typical elite European education.
See also
- Classic book
- Classical tradition
- Great Books of the Western World
- Humanism
- Literae Humaniores
- Loeb Classical Library
- Neoclassicism
- Philology
- Western culture
- Western world
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