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14 hours ago · The classical era was a period of artistic, cultural, and intellectual flowering that lasted from the 5th century BCE to the 4th century CE. This era saw the rise of ancient Greece and Rome, and their contributions to the fields of philosophy, science, mathematics, literature, and the arts. However, as with all things, the classical era had to ...
14 hours ago · Ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greece gave rise to much written knowledge that influenced western learning for two millennia. Although Socrates thought writing an inferior means of transmission of learning (recounted in the Phaedrus), we know of his works through Plato's written accounts of his dialogues. Havelock, as well, has seen the ...
14 hours ago · Inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art, the classical history paintings of the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) and the ideas of the German writer Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) and the German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), Neoclassicism began in Rome, but soon spread throughout Europe.
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14 hours ago · In the late 5th century BCE, several Greek city states checked the Achaemenid Persian advance in Europe through the Greco-Persian Wars, considered a pivotal moment in world history, as the 50 years of peace that followed are known as Golden Age of Athens, the seminal period of ancient Greece that laid many of the foundations of Western ...
14 hours ago · Pre-Christian anti-Judaism in Ancient Greece and Rome that was primarily ethnic in nature; Christian antisemitism in antiquity and the Middle Ages that was religious in nature and has extended into modern times; Muslim antisemitism that was—at least in its classical form—nuanced, in that Jews were a protected class
14 hours ago · Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized : dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. [2] Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more expansive ...
14 hours ago · The Periplus further explains ancient Indo-Greek rule and continued circulation of Indo-Greek coinage in the region: "To the present day ancient drachmae are current in Barygaza, coming from this country, bearing inscriptions in Greek letters, and the devices of those who reigned after Alexander, Apollodorus and Menander."
