Classical may refer to:

European antiquity

Classical antiquity Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD centred on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ...

, 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 Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of the Roman architect V ...

, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity *

Classical mythology Classical mythology, Greco-Roman mythology, or Greek and Roman mythology is both the body of and the study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans as they are used or transformed by cultural reception. Along with philosophy and polit ...

, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans *

Classical tradition The Western classical tradition is the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially the post-classical West, involving texts, imagery, objects, ideas, institutions, monuments, architecture, cultural artifacts, ritua ...

, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures *

Classics 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 ...

, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature *

Classicism Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aestheti ...

, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts

Music and arts

Classical ballet Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique. It is known for its aesthetics and rigorous technique (such as pointe work, turnout of the legs, and high extensions), its ...

, the most formal of the ballet styles *

Classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

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

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

, a common type of acoustic guitar *

Classical Hollywood cinema Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking which became characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s (rapidly after World War I) and the 1960s. It eventually be ...

, 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) The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music, but a more sophistic ...

, a period of increased interest in classicism from 1750 to 1825 *

Classical unities The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities represent a prescriptive theory of dramatic tragedy that was introduced in Italy in the 16th century and was influential for three centuries. The three unities are: #''unity of action' ...

, 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 A classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large and ancient body of written literature. Classical languages are typically dead languages, or show a high degree of diglossia, as the spoken varieties of the ...

, any language with a literature that is considered classical **

Classical Arabic Classical Arabic ( ar, links=no, ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ, al-ʿarabīyah al-fuṣḥā) or Quranic Arabic is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notab ...

, the Arabic language in which the Qur'an is written **

Classical Armenian Classical Armenian (, in Eastern Armenian pronunciation: Grabar, Western Armenian: Krapar; 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 oldest attested form of the Armenian language **

Classical Chinese Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese (古文 ''gǔwén'' "ancient text", or 文言 ''wényán'' "text speak", meaning "literary language/speech"; modern vernacular: 文言文 ''wényánwén'' "text speak text", meaning "literar ...

, the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period **

Classical French French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages. The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external histor ...

, the French language as systematised in the 17th and 18th centuries **Classical 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 mathematics, mathematics constructed and proved on the basis of classical logic and set theory *Classical mechanics, the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces *Classical physics, the study of physics before the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Other uses

*Classical liberalism, a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism *Classical conditioning, a kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus *Classical time control, a category of time control used in chess *The Classical, a defunct American sports website

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