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For other civilizations or uses of the term, see Classic.
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The classical art and classical culture, or Classical greek ancient Civilization, are names that designate the intellectual output of Antigo age or classical Greco-Roman (Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, although several, strongly identified with one art prints another). Its arts and culture in the Renaissance were considered classical, ie, worthy of imitation (mimesis), as everything that is classicus (in latin: belonging to a class, particularly with respect to a higher class than the other), or which should be taken as a model of superior quality. Such was the Greek art and Roman art, or the Greco-Roman culture, a concept that encompasses the culture in Greece and the Greek or Roman culture (while the concepts of Hellenistic culture, Latino culture and have a meaning of its own).
Art and culture are concepts that include classic literature and classical Greek and Roman: the various forms of Greek literature and Latin literature (including poetry, drama, modern art history 'classical historiography' philosophy and 'Greek philosophy, Hellenistic philosophy') and in the arts not only the so-called fine arts, but also all the minor arts (sometimes extending to the entire material culture).
Also part of the civilization classical Greco-Roman civilization and the other features of their culture, beliefs (Classical Mythology "Greek Mythology, Roman mythology ') and roman ancient even his life (Life in Ancient Greece, the Customs of Ancient Rome) as well as its economy, society and political, military and religious (Greek religion, Roman religion), especially of Greek institutions and Roman institutions.
Their time constraints are so vague as to the age that it is: a. the eighth century C. d. V century C., or ending in the third century d. C. (since from the fourth century AD, beginning the cultural hegemony of Christianity), or starting in the third millennium a. C. (thus including the Minoan civilization and civilization Mycenae). Custom two authors, include classical culture from Homer to Apuleyo, two works from the palace until Cnosos the Trajan Column.
In Greece, it reserves the name of the classical period is known as the century of Pericles (the middle of V century art BC to the mid-fourth century BC, while in Rome museum art doing the same since the last centuries of the Roman Republic (second century BC) until the first centuries of the Roman Empire with Antoninus (second century AD).
Periodization in ancient art, specifically the Western art is often to identify the contemporary art pre-classic period (Civilizations of the Ancient Near East), the Classical period Geneva (Greek and Roman art) and the post-classic period (art of the late age New york Antigo : late, Paleochristian and Byzantine).

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