Classical antiquity

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Classical antiquity is the long era of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, marked by major developments in politics, philosophy, art, and literature that profoundly shaped Western culture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural period
historical era
coreCivilization Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece

Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
followedBy Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
hasArchitectureStyle Corinthian order
Doric order
Ionic order
Roman architecture
hasArtStyle Ancient Greek sculpture
surface form: Classical Greek sculpture

Hellenistic art
hasCulturalLegacy Greco-Roman law and institutions
classical mythology
hasEconomicActivity Mediterranean maritime trade
hasEndTime 6th century AD
fall of the Western Roman Empire
hasKeyConcept citizenship in Greek and Roman societies
democracy in classical Athens
republicanism in Rome
hasKeyHistorian Herodotus
Livy
Polybius
Tacitus
Thucydides
hasKeyLiteraryFigure Aeschylus
Euripides
Homer
Ovid
Sophocles
Virgil
hasKeyPhilosopher Aristotle
Cicero
Epicurus
Marcus Aurelius
Plato
Seneca the Younger
Socrates
Zeno of Citium
hasMajorConflict Greco-Persian Wars
Peloponnesian War
Punic Wars
hasMajorLanguage Ancient Greek
Latin
hasMajorReligion ancient Greek religion
ancient Roman religion
early Christianity
hasMajorRuler Alexander the Great
Augustus
Constantine I
surface form: Constantine the Great

Julius Caesar
hasPoliticalForm Greek polis
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
hasStartTime 8th century BC
hasWritingSystem Greek alphabet
Latin alphabet
influenced Neoclassicism
Renaissance culture
Western civilization
knownFor codification of Roman law
development of Western philosophy
development of classical art and architecture
development of drama and literature
formation of the polis and the Roman Republic
mainRegion Europe
Mediterranean Basin
North Africa
Middle East
surface form: Western Asia
partOf ancient history
precededBy Bronze Age civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean
studiedInDiscipline ancient history
classics

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Aeniania timePeriod Classical antiquity
Macedonians historicalPeriod Classical antiquity
Perrhaebia timePeriod Classical antiquity
Greco-Roman sources timePeriod Classical antiquity
Mesara Plain historicalPeriodOfIntensiveUse Classical antiquity
Achaemenid coinage system historicalPeriod Classical antiquity
Durs Grünbein influencedBy Classical antiquity
Diomedon era Classical antiquity
Aristocrates (Athenian general) historicalEra Classical antiquity