Classical period

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era of ancient Greek history historical period

The Classical period was an era of ancient Greek history, roughly the 5th to 4th centuries BCE, marked by major achievements in art, philosophy, drama, and politics that profoundly shaped Western civilization.

Statements (77)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of ancient Greek history → historical period →
country	ancient Greece →
endTime	4th century BCE →
followedBy	Hellenistic period →
follows	Archaic period →
hasArtisticStyle	Classical Greek sculpture → Doric order → Ionic order →
hasCharacteristic	advances in art and architecture → codification of rhetoric → development of classical drama → development of democracy → emergence of historical writing → expansion of Greek city-states → flourishing of philosophy → intellectual inquiry →
hasCulturalCenter	Athens → Corinth → Sparta → Thebes →
hasDiscipline	architecture → comedy → drama → historiography → philosophy → political theory → rhetoric → sculpture → tragedy →
hasGenre	Attic tragedy → Old Comedy → classical Greek historiography →
hasMainTerritory	Athens → Attica → Peloponnese → Sparta →
hasMajorEvent	Greco-Persian Wars → Peloponnesian War → fall of Athenian hegemony → rise of Athenian Empire → rise of Macedon →
hasMajorFigure	Aeschylus → Alexander the Great → Aristophanes → Aristotle → Demosthenes → Euripides → Herodotus → Pericles → Phidias → Plato → Polykleitos → Socrates → Sophocles → Thucydides →
hasPhilosophicalSchool	Aristotelianism → Cynicism → Cyrenaicism → Platonism → Sophism →
hasPoliticalSystem	Athenian democracy → Spartan oligarchy →
hasReligion	ancient Greek religion →
hasWorkOfArchitecture	Parthenon → Propylaea → Temple of Hephaestus →
influenced	Western art → Western drama → Western literature → Western philosophy → Western political thought → concept of democracy →
language	Ancient Greek →
partOf	ancient Greek history →
startTime	5th century BCE →
timePeriod	circa 480 BCE to 323 BCE →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Athens →	historicalEraOfProminence
History of the Peloponnesian War →	literaryPeriod