Classical may refer to:

European antiquity

Classical antiquity Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural History of Europe, European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the inter ...

, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea * Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity * Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans * Classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures *

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature * Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts

Music and arts

* Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles *

Classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical mu ...

, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present *

Classical guitar The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string (music), string instrument with strings made of catgut, gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the ...

, a common type of acoustic guitar * Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963 * Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose theory can be traced back to 400 BC * Classical period (music), a period of increased interest in classicism from 1750 to 1825 * Classical unities, rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's ''Poetics'' * ''Classical'' (album), a 1997 album by Wolf Hoffmann *'' A Classical'', a 2013 album by Ayumi Hamasaki

Language

* Classical language, any language with a literature that is considered classical ** Classical Arabic, the Arabic language in which the Qur'an is written **

Classical Armenian Classical Armenian (, , ; meaning "literary anguage; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at the beginning of the 5th century, and most Armenian literature fro ...

, the oldest attested form of the Armenian language ** Classical Chinese, the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period ** Classical French, the French language as systematised in the 17th and 18th centuries **

Classical Latin Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a Literary language, literary standard language, standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It formed parallel to Vulgar Latin around 75 BC out of Old Latin ...

, the Latin language used by the ancient Romans ** Classical Nahuatl, the language spoken by Aztec nobles in the Valley of Mexico at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest

Science and mathematics

* Classical economics, school of economics developed in the late 18th and early 19th century * Classical logic, a class of formal logics that have been most intensively studied and most widely used *

Classical mechanics Classical mechanics is a Theoretical physics, physical theory describing the motion of objects such as projectiles, parts of Machine (mechanical), machinery, spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies. The development of classical mechanics inv ...

, the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces *

Classical physics Classical physics refers to physics theories that are non-quantum or both non-quantum and non-relativistic, depending on the context. In historical discussions, ''classical physics'' refers to pre-1900 physics, while '' modern physics'' refers to ...

, the study of physics before the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Other uses

Classical liberalism Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited governmen ...

, a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism *

Classical conditioning Classical conditioning (also respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent Stimulus (physiology), stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye, a potential rival) is paired with a n ...

, a kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus *Classical

time control A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed. For turn-based games such as chess, shogi or go, time cont ...

, a category of time control used in chess *

The Classical The Classical was a sports website featuring long-form sports articles. Described as the sports equivalent of The Awl, the site was launched in December 2011 by several members of the basketball blog ''FreeDarko'', including Bethlehem Shoals and ...

, a defunct American sports website

European antiquity

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